1st & 2nd Year Public Health

Question 1

“Is the act good for everyone that will be affected by the act?”

Answer 1

Community ethics

Question 2

“Integration of disease framework and illness framework - patients as partners”

Answer 2

Bio-Psychosocial model

Question 3

The body as a “machine” does not take into account the patient themselves

Answer 3

Bio medical model

Question 4

Whether some action is right or wrong depends upon consequences

Answer 4

Consequentialism

Question 5

Act always to maximise the greatest happiness of the greatest number

Answer 5

Consequentialism

Question 6

“Is the act right or wrong in itself, irrelevant of benefits for me or other or possible consequences?”

Answer 6

Deontology

Question 7

Study of frequency, distribution and determinants of disease in population

Answer 7

Epidemiology

Question 8

What are the components of the epidemiological triangle

Answer 8

Vector (food), Host, Obsogenic environment

Question 9

Ability to gain access to, understand, and use information in ways which promote and maintain good health

Answer 9

Health literacy

Question 10

Number of new cases of a disease occurring in a population during a specific period of time/ number of persons exposed to risk of developing the disease during that period of time

Answer 10

Incidence rate

Question 11

Experience of discomfort + suffering

Answer 11

Illness

Question 12

A pathological condition within the body

Answer 12

Disease

Question 13

Stopping a disease before it starts

Answer 13

Primary prevention

Question 14

Does the act respect the sanctity of human life?

Answer 14

Religious theories

Question 15

Number of cases of a disease present in a population at a specific point in time/ Number of persons at risk of having the disease at that point in time

Answer 15

Prevalence rate

Question 16

Proportion of those who test positive who actually have the disease

Answer 16

Positive predictive value

Question 17

Proportion of those who test negative who actually do not have the disease

Answer 17

Negative predictive value

Question 18

What is the formula for positive predictive value?

Answer 18

Test true positives/Test positives

Question 19

What is the formula for negative predictive value

Answer 19

Test true negatives/true negatives

Question 20

Stopping a disease from being as bad as it could be

Answer 20

Secondary prevention

Question 21

Proportion of those who have the disease who are correctly identified by a +ve test

Answer 21

Sensitivity

Question 22

Proportion of those who do not have the disease who are correctly identified by a -ve test

Answer 22

Specificity

Question 23

Stopping later complications from developing

Answer 23

Tertiary prevention

Question 24

“am I being honest to myself and consistent in my acts?”

Answer 24

Virtue theory

Question 25

Number of previously undiagnosed cases picked up by a screening test or programme

Answer 25

Yield