Lecture 4: Public Health Infrastructure

Question 1

What are the 10 greatest achievements of Public Health in the 20th century?

Answer 1

1. Immunizations
2. Motor-Vehicle Safety
3. Workplace Safety
4. Control of Infectious Diseases
5. Declines in death from stroke and heart disease
6. Safer and Healthier Foods
7. Healthier mothers and babies
8. Family planning
9. Fluoridation of drinking water
10. Tobacco as a health hazard

Question 2

What do public health organizations do? (3)

Answer 2

• Monitor and prevent disease outbreak
• Implement disease/outbreak prevention strategies
• Maintain national health statistics

Question 3

What are the 3 key components to success for public health infrastructure?

Answer 3

• Capable and qualified workforce
• UTD data and information systems
• Agencies capable of assessing and responding to public health needs

Question 4

When and where was the CDC founded?

Answer 4

• 1946, based in Atlanta.

Question 5

What is the purpose of the CDC?

Answer 5

Preventing and controlling
* Infectious and chronic diseases
* Injuries
* Workplace hazards
* Disabilities
* Environmental health hazards

US ONLY

Question 6

What is the leading cause of death in the US?

Answer 6

Heart disease

Question 7

What is HRSA?

Answer 7

Health Resources and Services Administration.

Branch of the US DHHS.

Question 8

What does HRSA do?

Answer 8

Equitable healthcare to the nation’s highest-need communities.

Provides healthcare.

Provides scholarships for professional training.

Question 9

What organization oversees organ, bone marrow, and cord donation?

Answer 9

HRSA.

Question 10

What organization pays out for vaccination injuries?

Answer 10

HRSA

Question 11

What organization manages the poison control hotline?

Answer 11

HRSA

Question 12

What does the NIH do?

Answer 12

National institutes of Health, which manages medical research.

Conducts research in the US and ABROAD as well.

Question 13

How many institutes make up the NIH?

Answer 13

27

Question 14

What does the FDA do?

Answer 14

• Safety, efficacy and security of human/vet pharmaceuticals, biological products, and medical devices.
• Ensuring safety of food supply, cosmetics, and radiation.
• Regulating manufacturing, marketing, and distribution of tobacco.

Question 15

What is OSHA?

Answer 15

• Occupational Safety and Health Administration.
• Federal org under Dept of labor.
• Made in 1970 by passage of OSHA act.

Question 16

Who does OSHA cover?

Answer 16

Safe working conditions for private and some public employers and employees.
DOES NOT COVER self-employed or farm families hiring immediate family members.

Question 17

How have work fatalities decreased since OSHA was created?

Answer 17

Decreased by half

Question 18

What does the EPA do?

Answer 18

• Conduct environmental assessment, research, and education.
• Implements environmental standards and laws passed by congress.
• Monitors air and water quality.

Question 19

What are the 5 divisions of the West Virginia Department of Health and Human Resources?

Answer 19

• Bureau for public health
• Bureau for behavioral health and health facilities
• Bureau for children and families
• Bureau for child support enforcement
• Bureau for medical services