health

Question 1

What is Health?

Answer 1

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

Question 2

What is public health’s definition by CEA Winslow

Answer 2

the science and art of preventing disease, prolonging life, and promoting health through the organized
efforts and informed choices of society, organizations, public and private communities, and individuals.

Question 3

What is public health’s definition by Institute of Medicine

Answer 3

The activities that ensure conditions in which people can be healthy. These activities include community wide
efforts to identify, prevent, and combat threats to the health of the public.

Question 4

what is the purpose of public health

Answer 4

• saves lives
• promotes wellbeing
• creates environments that enable individuals, families, and communities be informed, empowered, healthier and more productive.

Question 5

what do public health means for people?

Answer 5

public health means publicly funded health care, or health care for individuals who otherwise, cannot afford to access it

Question 6

give an example of how the public health played a major role in community’s health status

Answer 6

In U.S.A, Public health keeps teeth healthy through fluoridation of the public drinking-water supply

Question 7

what does the public health regulate?

Answer 7

-the safety of our food supply
-teaches and promotes safe food handling practices that kill bacteria and prevent contaminating food.

Question 8

how does the public health system work?

Answer 8

The public health system works to make sure that children are fully immunized

Question 9

The public health system works to make sure that children are fully immunized from

Answer 9

transmit measles, whooping cough, diphtheria, polio, or other childhood diseases that are killers

Question 10

clinical trials

Answer 10

is a research study that prospectively assigns human participants or groups of humans to one or more health-related interventions to evaluate the effects on health outcomes

Question 11

Achievements of the 20th century:

Answer 11

-Vaccinations
-Fewer deaths from heart disease and -stroke
-Healthier mothers and babies
-Reduction in tobacco use

Question 12

Emerging threats of the 21st century:

Answer 12

• chronic diseases
• New and re-emerging infectious diseases
  -Natural disasters