Chapter 6-volume 1

Question 1

Public health

Answer 1

The science and practice of protecting and improving the health of a community through the use of preventative medicine, health education, control of communicable diseases, application of sanitary measures, and monitoring of environmental hazards

Question 2

How can communities link EMS and public health together?

Answer 2

Strong medical oversight of both public health and EMS

Desire and an effort to educate both emergency care and public health providers about others’ roles

Recognition of the role of and a commitment to developing and maintaining relationships among leaders of the component groups through a regular meetings, teambuilding exercises, and planning

Bringing community stakeholders into the planning process

Predecessor plans that are developed locally, involve public health emergency care, and are repeatedly drilled

Aggressively pursuing and securing funding

Question 3

What are the three categories of public health laws?

Answer 3

Illness and prevention, police powers for public health agencies, and epidemiological tools

Question 4

Public health law research program

Answer 4

Established at Temple University in Philadelphia in 2009

Aids public health entities in promoting effective regulatory and legal solutions to public health problems

Question 5

Epidemiology

Answer 5

The study of factors that influence the frequency, distribution, and causes of injury, disease, and other health related events in a population

Question 6

Years of productive life

Answer 6

A calculation made by subtracting the age at death from 65

Question 7

Injury

Answer 7

Intentional or unintentional damage to a person resulting from acute exposure to thermal, mechanical, electrical, or chemical energy or from the absence of such essentials such as heat or oxygen

Question 8

Injury risk

Answer 8

A hazardous or potentially hazardous situation that put people in danger of sustaining injury

Question 9

Injury surveillance program

Answer 9

The ongoing systematic collection, analysis, and interpretation of injury data essential to the planning, implementation, and evaluation of public health practice.

Question 10

Primary prevention

Answer 10

Keeping an injury from ever occurring

Question 11

Secondary prevention

Answer 11

Medical care after an injury or illness that helps to prevent further problems from occurring

Question 12

Tertiary prevention

Answer 12

Rehabilitation after an injury or illness that helps to prevent further problems from occurring

Question 13

What are the six major roles epidemiology has in public health practice

Answer 13

Public health surveillance, field investigation, Analytic studies, evaluation, linkage, policy development

Question 14

EMS roles in public health

Answer 14

Disease prevention, disease surveillance, disaster management, injury prevention

Question 15

What is the primary tenet of public health

Answer 15

To identify and prevent injury and illness

Question 16

What are some areas where EMS can be active in prevention

Answer 16

Infants and children, motor vehicle collisions, geriatric patients, work and recreation hazards, medication, Early discharge.

Question 17

What are some prevention strategies for EMS personnel

Answer 17

Preserve response team safety, recognize scene hazards, document findings, conduct on scene education, know your community resources, assess community needs