(1) UNIT 1.1: Introduction to Public Health

Question 1

A state of complete physical, mental, and social well-being and not merely the absence of disease of infirmity

Answer 1

Health

Question 2

Factors influencing health and well-being

Answer 2

Social and Economic Factors
Health Behaviors
Clinical Care
Physical Environment
Genes and Biology

Question 3

How many percent is Social and Economic Factors as a factor influencing health and well-being?

Answer 3

40%

Question 4

How many percent is Health Behaviors as a factor influencing health and well-being?

Answer 4

30%

Question 5

How many percent is Clinical Care as a factor influencing health and well-being?

Answer 5

10%

Question 6

How many percent is Physical Environment as a factor influencing health and well-being?

Answer 6

10%

Question 7

How many percent is Genes and Biology as a factor influencing health and well-being?

Answer 7

10%

Question 8

Analyzing the health of a population and the threats it faces

Answer 8

Public Health

Question 9

Measures directed to group of people to promote, protect, and preserve health

Answer 9

Public Health

Question 10

Science of protecting the safety and improving the health of communities through education, policy making, and research for disease and injury prevention

Answer 10

Public Health

Question 11

The comprehensive definition of public health is provided by ___

Answer 11

Charles-Edward Amory Winslow, 1920

Question 12

Identify if public health or health care:

Population focus

Answer 12

Public health

Question 13

Identify if public health or health care:

Public health ethic

Answer 13

Public health

Question 14

Identify if public health or health care:

Joint laboratory and field environment

Answer 14

Public Health

Question 14

Identify if public health or health care:

Clinical sciences peripheral to professional training

Answer 14

Public Health

Question 14

Identify if public health or health care:

Prevention

Answer 14

Public Health

Question 15

Identify if public health or health care:

Individual patient focus

Answer 15

Health care

Question 16

Identify if public health or health care:

Personal service ethic

Answer 16

Health care

Question 17

Identify if public health or health care:

Diagnosis and treatment emphasis

Answer 17

Health care

Question 18

Identify if public health or health care:

Joint laboratory and patient involvement

Answer 18

Health care

Question 19

Identify if public health or health care:

Private sector basis

Answer 19

Health care

Question 20

Five steps in prevention and intervention

Answer 20

1. Define the health problem
2. Identify the risk factors associated with the problem
3. Develop and test community-level intervention to control and prevent the cause of the problem
4. Implement intervention to improve the health of the population
5. Monitor those intervention to assess their effectiveness

Question 21

Main task is to develop intervention designed to prevent specific problems that have been identified

Answer 21

Prevention

Question 22

3 levels of approaches

Answer 22

Primary prevention
Secondary prevention
Tertiary prevention

Question 23

Prevents illness or injury from occurring at all

Answer 23

Primary prevention

Question 24

Seeks to minimize the severity of the illness or the damage due to an injury-causing event once the event has occurred

Answer 24

Secondary prevention

Question 25

Seeks to minimize disability through rehabilitation

Answer 25

Tertiary prevention

Question 26

An act performed for, with or on behalf of a person or population whose purpose is to assess, improve, maintain, promote, or modify health, functioning or health conditions

Answer 26

Health intervention

Question 27

Being developed to provide a common tool for reporting and analyzing health interventions for statistical purposes

Answer 27

International Classification of Health Interventions (ICHI)

Question 28

Covers interventions carried out by a broad range of providers across the full scope of health systems and includes interventions

Answer 28

ICHI

Question 29

___ prevention may be out of the domain of PH, but ____ prevention are very much a part of public health’s mission

Answer 29

Primary
Secondary and Tertiary

Question 30

Public health consists of:

Answer 30

Social medicine
Preventive medicine
Community medicine
Community health

Question 31

Identify if public health or health care:

Clinical sciences essential to professional training

Answer 31

Health Care