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Public Health Flashcards

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What is public health according to Winslow?

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Science and rt of preventing disease, prolonging life and promoting health and efficiency through organized community measures through sanitation, control of infection, health education, health services, and legislation

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A theoretician and leader of American public health

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Edward A. Winslow

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principles and concept of public health

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Community action
Public health history
Public health
Public health activities

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4
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Story of a man’s attempt to protect himself and his fellow against the health hazards of communal living

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Public health history

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5
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Organized effort by society to protect, promote and restore the health of its citizens

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Public health

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6
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Emphasize the prevention of disease and disability and concentrate on the health and well-being of groups of people

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Public health activities

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Goal of public health

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Reduce discomfort, disability, and disease in society
Promote quality of life
Attaining the highest level of physical, mental and social well-being utilizing available knowledge and resources

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Emphasis of public health

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Prevention of disease and disability
Concentrate on health and well-being of groups of people
Sanitation of the environment
Control of communicable infections
Education of the individual in personal hygiene
Organization of medical and nursing services for the early diagnosis
Development of the social machinery

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In ancient mesopotomia, what do they perform to drive away the evil spirits of diseases

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Rituals and incantation of pestilence
Noise
Smoke
Tribal dancing

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Who built water closets, drainage systems and water flushing systems?

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Minoans and myceneans

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In athenian civilization they practice?

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Personal hygiene that sometimes resulted to illness

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In middle ages people are not?

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Bathing, they only use perfume and wear dirty gartments

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Pandemics of cholera and bubonic plague were spread by

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Pilgrims

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14
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Was the endemic center of cholera

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Asia

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In what countries/continents the spread of Leprosy occurred?

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Egypt to Asia Minor and Europe

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16
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In what century the eradication of endemic diseases happened?

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16th century

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17
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Continued to be the most important mode of producing doctors

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Apprenticeship

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18
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Marked progress was made in surgery

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1st half of the 19th century

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19
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AMA stands for

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American Medical Association

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Types of medicine practiced by 17th century?

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Alchemy with a strong dash of plain luck
Amalgam of barbering

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21
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AMA was founded in

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1847

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22
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In what century medicine attempted to treat communicable diseases

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20th century

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Highly fatal killer diseases

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Yellow fever, small pox, diphtheria, and asiatic cholera

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24
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5 years old children dies due to?

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Summer fluxes, teething, convulsions and other related disorders

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25
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He recommended the creation of board of health

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Lemuel shattuck

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26
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Secretary of poor law board

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Edwin chadwick

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27
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The act that was passed; championed and caused community health

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Poor law act

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28
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In 1850, it was generally believed that the cholera agent was inhaled from?

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Air

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29
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He carefully observed the cholera patients

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John snow

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30
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John snow recognized that cholera agent must be in

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Water, food or carried by the hands

31
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Vision screening of school children began

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Europe, Germany, and Boston

32
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Passage of national quarantine act

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Yellow fever

33
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Public health became the integration of _______ and ________

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Sanitary science, medical science

34
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Principal measures for limiting the spread of contagion

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Quarantine and disinfection

35
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The only significant federal health program during world war II

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Hill-Burton Act of 1946

36
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The earliest reference of the human eye is found in the _______

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Code of Hammurabi in Babylon

37
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Earliest optical shop was opened by optician

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John McAllister in Philadelphia in 1783

38
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Considered the father of Optometry

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Charles prentice

39
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In 1898, the American Association of Optician renamed ______

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American Optometric Association

40
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First optometric law was enacted in

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1901 in Minnesota

41
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During the prehistoric world, romans had

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Periodic census counts
Garbage removal
Public water supply
Sewerage systems

42
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Rapid recovery from the revolutionary war years lead to large measures of prosperity and expansion

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Mercantilism and colonization

43
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Hebrews dealt with

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Hygiene of maternity
Isolation in lepers
Sanitation of campsites
Cleanliness of the body

44
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First bacteriologic laboratory for routine diagnosis of disease was established during

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Bacteriologic era

45
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The use of full scope of optometric knowledge, skills, and services to prevent disease, prolong life and to promote health

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Public health optometry

46
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Is a state of complete physical, mental and social well being and not merely the absence or disease or infirmity

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Health

47
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Science and art of conserving and promoting healthful, wholesome, and comfortable vision

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Visual hygiene

48
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Science of the preservation of health; sanitary science; a principle of rules designed for the promotion of health

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Hygiene

49
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Embodiment of the principles, which aid in the undertaking of the causes and sources of ocular infection and disease

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Visual sanitation

50
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Use of sanitary measures; science of sanitary condition

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Sanitation

51
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It is UN specialized agency for health

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WORLD HEALTH ORGANIZATION (WHO)

52
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It is UN specialized agency for health

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WORLD HEALTH ORGANIZATION (WHO)

53
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WHO was established in

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April 7, 1948

54
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WHO was governed by how many members?

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192 members

55
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What is the task of world health assembly?

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Approve the WHO program and the budget for the following biennium

56
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The principal health agency in the philippines

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DOH

57
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The following attached agencies by DOH

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PHILHEALTH
DDB
PITAH
PNAC

58
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Responsible for field operations of the development in its administrative region

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Center for Health Development

59
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Is implementing the national health insurance law, administers the MEDICARE program for both public and private sectors

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PHILIPPINE HEALTH INSURANCE CORPORATION

60
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Coordinates and manages the dangerous drugs control program

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Dangerous Drugs Board

61
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PITAH

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Philippine Institute for Traditional and Alternative HealthCare

62
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PNAC

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Philippine National AIDS Council

63
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Setting the stage to prevent the onset of vision conditions so that they will not be detrimental to the full development or utilization of the patients

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Primary

64
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Preventing or reversing the ongoing vision deterioration, so that any interference with the patient’s potential would be reserved

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Secondary

65
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Preventing an existing vision condition from further deteriorating to ameliorate the seriousness of the disability

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Tertiary

66
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To promote health and hygiene

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Primary eyecare

67
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This level of care is carried out by physicians specializing in Ophthalmology

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Secondary eyecare

68
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This level of care is represented by the institute of Ophthalmology or at specialized department of hospital

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Tertiary eyecare

69
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This level of care is represented by the institute of Ophthalmology or at specialized department of hospital

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Tertiary eyecare

70
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Vision disorder affects more than how many people?

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120M people

71
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What is the major public health problem?

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Vision disorder

72
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May result from developmental vision problems, uncoordinated growth, or disease processes

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Low vision

73
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Defined legally as VA less than 20/200 or worse in the better eye with best ophthalmic correction

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Blindness

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