Exam 1 Study Questions

Question 1

What is Public Health?

Answer 1

Organized community efforts to prolong life, prevent disease and promote physical activity

Question 2

What are the three core functions of public health?

Answer 2

Assessment
Policy Development
Assurance

Question 3

What essential health services are linked with Assessment?

Answer 3

diagnosing and investigating health hazards in a community

Question 4

What essential health services are linked with policy development?

Answer 4

informing, educating and empowering the people about health issues
develop policies and plans to support individual and community health efforts

Question 5

What essential health services are linked with Assurance

Answer 5

enforcing laws and regulations that protect health and ensure safety

Question 6

similarities and differences in public health and medical care

Answer 6

Public health is concerned with prevention while medical care is treating after and injury/illness has already happened
public health is community
Medical care is individual

both want a safe and healthy population

Question 7

roles do science and politics play in public health?

Answer 7

science is how we understand the illness/injury and create/analyze interventions

Question 8

what are the 6 disciplines of public health?

Answer 8

1. Epidemiology
2. Biomedical science
3. Social and behavioral science
4. Statistics
5. Environmental health sciences
6. Health policy management

Question 9

5 step process that documents public healths approach to health problems in community?

Answer 9

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

Question 10

what are the three levels of prevention?

Answer 10

Primary
- prevents illness/injury form occurring
Secondary
- Minimizes severity of problem
Tertiary
- Rehabilitate

Question 11

How did the events of 9/11 and anthrax scare reinforce the importance of a strong public health system?

Question 12

What are some actions the government has taken to ensure that people are safer and healthier today than people 100 years ago?

Question 13

What market justice?
What are the characteristics?
What are the implications?

Question 14

What is social justice?
what are the characteristics?
What are the implications?

Question 15

What is the tragedy of commerce?
What are the implications?

Answer 15

multiple individuals acting in their own self interest and depleting a shared limited resource

Question 16

what are the four sources of controversy?

Answer 16

1. Politics vs. science
2. Individual freedoms/liberties
3. Moral and religious concern
4. Economic concern

Question 17

describe the division of public health authority between federal and state governments

Question 18

What are the three branches of government and their general responsibilities?

Answer 18

Legislative= Passes statutes
Judicial=Laws and regulations can be challenged in court
Executive=Enforces laws

Question 19

Describe the work of public health agencies at different levels of government (local, state, federal)

Question 20

What roles do nongovernment organizations play in public health

Answer 20

Play important role in lobbying, education and researching

Question 21

List some non government public health organizations

Question 22

What are four major public health stories of the modern era and their implications for public health?