1st Class

Question 1

Miasma

Answer 1

Belief that bad air causes illness

Question 2

Types of interventions

Answer 2

Upstream vs downstream

Question 3

Upstream

Answer 3

Preventing:

-Population focused
-Address political, social, economic, environmental causes

Question 4

Downstram

Answer 4

Treatment of problem already there:

Biomed

Question 5

Levels of practice

Answer 5

Systems focused

Community focused

Individual/family focused

Question 6

Systems focused

Answer 6

Change laws, policies
Power structures of systems

Question 7

Community focused

Answer 7

Change norms, attitudes, practice awareness

Question 8

Individual/family focus

Answer 8

Tx of pt
education familty

Question 9

John snow

Answer 9

Father of epidemiology
Ended colera

Question 10

Florence nightingale

Answer 10

Improved conditions for soliders in crimean war

Increased distance
Creased coxcomb chart
Clean and sanitary environment

Question 11

Lilian wald
Mary brewster

Answer 11

Developed public health nurse

Question 12

Mary breckenridge

Answer 12

Goes to europe and becomes a mid wife

Returns to kentucky

Question 13

Leading cause of death

Answer 13

Communicable diseases

Question 14

Health

Answer 14

Condition of the human that is multidimensional in nature.

Question 15

Community

Answer 15

Group of people who have common characteristics

Can be defined by:
Location
Ethnicity
Age
Occupation

Question 16

Types of communities

Geopolitical vs phenomenological

Answer 16

Geopolitical communities:
-man made boundaries

Phenomenological communities:
-churches, university

Question 17

Public health

Answer 17

Actions that society takes collectively to ensure conditions in which people can be healthy

Obedient of speed limit
Dont dumb waste

Question 18

Community health

Answer 18

Defined group of people and the actions and conditions to promote protect and preserve their health

Question 19

Global health

Answer 19

Health problems, issues, and concerns that transcend national boundaries

Question 20

Personal health activities

Answer 20

Individual actions that affect them or their families health

Question 21

Community/public health activities

Answer 21

Activities aimed to improve population or community health:

Protecting food
Water supply

Question 22

Physical factors that affect the health of the community

Answer 22

Geography
Environment
Community size
Industrial development

Question 23

Social and cultural factors effecting community health

Answer 23

Beliefs/traditions/prejudices
Economy
Politics
Religion
Social norms
Socioeconomic status

Question 24

Herd immunity

Answer 24

Need 80% of population to get vaccinated

(Resistance of a population to the spread of an infectious agent based on the immunity of a high proportion of individuals)

Question 25

Healthy people

Answer 25

Based on surgeon general report on health promotion and disease prevention Updates every decade (2030)