NEHA Chapter One

Question 1

What are the core functions of Public Health Agencies?

Answer 1

Assessment
Policy Development
Assurance

Question 2

What are the 10 Essential Public Health Services?

Answer 2

1. Monitor Health
2. Diagnose and Investigate
3. Inform, educate, and empower
4. Mobilize community partnerships
5. Develop policies and plans
6. Enforce laws and regulations
7. Link people to needed services
8. Ensure a competent workforce
9. Evaluate
10. Research

Question 3

What is the essence of Environmental Health? (AREC)

Answer 3

Anticipation
Recognition
Evaluation
Control

Question 4

inspections can be?

Answer 4

• At the request of a contractor or operator
• routinely to fulfill permit or license requirements
• in response to a complaint
• as part of a survey tool

Question 5

Malfeasance

Answer 5

Doing an unauthorized act in an unauthorized manner.

Question 6

Misfeasance

Answer 6

Doing an authorized act in an unauthorized manner.

Question 7

Nonfeasance

Answer 7

Failure to perform an official duty without sufficient excuse.

Question 8

Active Immunity

Answer 8

when exposure to a disease organism triggers the immune system to produce antibodies to that disease

Question 9

Lag Phase

Answer 9

period of bacterial cell growth in which the population remains constant as it adjusts to the environmental conditions of the growth medium in which it was introduced.

Question 10

Mode of Transmission

Answer 10

how an infectious agent, also called a pathogen, can be transferred from one person, object, or animal, to another.

Question 11

Carrier

Answer 11

a bearer and transmitter of a causative agent of an infectious disease

Question 12

Morbidity

Answer 12

Any departure from a state of well-being.

Question 13

Chronic Disease

Answer 13

conditions that last 1 year or more and require ongoing medical attention or limit activities of daily living or both.

Question 14

Acute Diseases

Answer 14

A disease of recent or sudden onset.

Question 15

Pandemic

Answer 15

a widespread occurrence of an infectious disease over a whole country or the world at a particular time.

Question 16

Mortality Rate

Answer 16

A measure of the frequency of death in a population during a time.

Question 17

Reservoir

Answer 17

The habitat in which an infectious agent normally lives, grows, and multiplies.

Question 18

Prevalence

Answer 18

The number of (or proportion) cases, events, or conditions in a given population.

Question 19

Demographic Data

Answer 19

The person (age, sex, race, job, etc.) of descriptive epidemiology used to characterize a population.

Question 20

Passive Immunity

Answer 20

Short term immunity which results from the introduction of antibodies from another person.

Question 21

Endemic

Answer 21

Disease regularly occurring within an area or community.

Question 22

Agent

Answer 22

A factor whose presence is essential for the occurrence of a disease.

Question 23

Epidemic

Answer 23

Rapid spread of disease to a large number of hosts in a short period of time.