[1.1] Introduction to Public Health

Question 1

_____ is a state of complete physical, mental, and social well-being and not merely the absence of disease or infirmity

Answer 1

Health

Question 2

What are the factors influencing health and well-being

Answer 2

• Social and economic factors
• Health Behaviors
• Clinical Care
• Physical Environment
• Genes and Biology

Question 3

Many deaths are _____

Answer 3

Premature

Question 4

_______ is related to preventing premature and avoidable deaths

Answer 4

Public Health

Question 5

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

Answer 5

Public Health

Question 6

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

Answer 6

Conceptualized Public Health

Question 7

Development of the social machinery to ensure everyone a standard living adequate for maintenance of health

Answer 7

Charles Edward Amory Winslow [1920]

Question 8

In the medical field, clinicians treat disease and injuries of one patient at a time. But in public health, we ______ disease and injury

Answer 8

Prevent

Question 9

Public health allows identification of the _____ of disease and disability and implement large scale solutions

Answer 9

Causes

Question 10

In public health, ______ work to find a vaccine for malaria

Answer 10

Microbiologist

Question 11

In public health, ______ research ways to discourage populations from smoking

Answer 11

Behavioral scientist

Question 12

In public health, environmental health scientist work to discover which ____ prevent cancer

Answer 12

food

Question 13

In public health, _________ identify trends in health and illness, looking for links, causes and interventions in areas such as HIV/AIDS, tuberculosis, and infant mortality

Question 14

What are the two public health approach

Answer 14

1. Public Health Model
2. Medical Model

Question 15

Health Approach:

Population focus

Answer 15

Public Health

Question 16

Health Approach:

Public health ethics

Answer 16

Public Health

Question 17

Health Approach:

Prevention or public health emphasis

Answer 17

Public Health

Question 18

Health Approach:

Joint laboratory and field involvement

Answer 18

Public Health

Question 19

Health Approach:

Clinical sciences peripheral to professional training

Answer 19

Public Health

Question 20

Health Approach:

Individual patient focus

Answer 20

Health Care

Question 21

Health Approach:

Personal service ethic

Answer 21

Health Care

Question 22

Health Approach:

Diagnosis and treatment emphasis

Answer 22

Health Care

Question 23

Health Approach:

Joint laboratory and patient involvement

Answer 23

Health Care

Question 24

Health Approach:

Clinical sciences essential to professional training

Answer 24

Health Care

Question 25

6 areas of Public Health

Answer 25

1. Epidemiology
2. Biostatistics
3. Biomedical Sciences
4. Social and behavioral science
5. Environmental Science
6. Public Policy

Question 26

Five step process of public health approach

Answer 26

1. Define the health problem
2. Identify the risk factors
3. Develop and test community level intervention
4. Implement intervention to improve the health of the population
5. Monitor those interventions to assess the effectiveness

Question 27

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

Answer 27

Prevention

Question 28

What is the 3 levels of approaches

Answer 28

Primary prevention, Secondary prevention, and Tertiary prevention

Question 29

Prevents illness or injury from occurring at all

Answer 29

Primary prevention

Question 30

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

Answer 30

Secondary prevention

Question 31

Seeks to minimize disability by

Answer 31

Tertiary prevention

Question 32

A health _____ is 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 32

Intervention

Question 33

Covers interventions carried out by a broad range of providers across the full scope of health systems and includes interventions on diagnostic, medical, surgical, mental health, primary care, allied health, functioning support, rehabilitation, traditional medicine and public health

Answer 33

International CLassification of Health Interventions [ICHI]

Question 34

Public Health consists of

Answer 34

Social Medicine
Community Health
Preventive Medicine
Community Medicine