Public Health

Question 1

combination of sciences, skills, and beliefs directed to the maintenance and improvement of the health of all the people through collective or societal actions. Aims to protect, promote, and restore the health of the population. Focus is preventive rather than curative.

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Public health

Question 2

Occurs when a group of people is resistant to an attack by a disease because a large proportion of the members of the group are immune, i.e. the transmission of the infectious agent is disrupted due to an inadequate number of susceptible hosts.

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Herd immunity

Question 3

Preventing the transfer of injury from occurring at all or at rates sustainable without causing damage to the body.

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Primary prevention

Question 4

Mitigating the transfer of energy such that the amount of energy transferred causes less severe damage to the body.

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Secondary prevention

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Treating and rehabilitating injury to lessen long-term negative outcomes.

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Tertiary prevention

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Individuals moving through time

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Population experience

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Individuals at a point in time

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Population cross-section

Question 8

What is the problem? A technique to answer this

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Surveillance

Question 9

What is the cause? A technique to answer this

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Risk Factor Identification

Question 10

What works? A technique to answer this

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Intervention & Evaluation

Question 11

How do you do it? A technique to answer this

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Implementation