Public Health Final

Question 1

How does public health affect us?

Answer 1

Public Health is what we as a society do collectively to assure the conditions in which people can be healthy

Question 2

Life expectancy in the USA has increased about how many years since the 1900’s?

Answer 2

30 years

Question 3

Leading deaths in the US?

Answer 3

Heart Disease
Cancer
Stroke
Diabetes

Question 4

Leading actual causes of death?

Answer 4

Tobacco
Poor Diet
Alcohol Consumption

Question 5

Social Justice vs Market Justice?

Answer 5

Social: the common good
Market: Individual Responsibility

Question 6

The 3 Public Health Responsibilities?

Answer 6

Education
Regulation
Prohibition

Question 7

Public Health can be categorized into what 2 funding sources?

Answer 7

Governmental
Non governmental

Question 8

Reciprocity

Answer 8

A salesperson giving a freebie to a potential customer, hoping that it will lead them to return the favor by purchasing something

Question 9

Communicable Disease Model

Answer 9

Host, Agent, Environemnt

Question 10

General Risk Factors for Cancer

Answer 10

Older Age
Using Tobacco
Obesity

Question 11

Complications of diabetes?

Answer 11

Blindness
Kidney Failure

Question 12

Primary Prevention

Answer 12

intervening before health effects occur, through.

Question 13

Secondary Prevention

Answer 13

screening to identify diseases in the earliest

Question 14

Tertiary Prevention

Answer 14

managing disease post diagnosis to slow or stop.

Question 15

What is the biggest predictor of public health?

Answer 15

Social Economic Status

Question 16

what is the most significant public health issue?

Answer 16

Tobacco

Question 17

Anatomy of a Cigarette?

Answer 17

Tar
Nicotine
Smoke
Carbon

Question 18

Health problems related to poor diet and physical inactivity?

Answer 18

Hypertension
High Cholesterol
Type 2 diabetes
Stroke
Some Cancers

Question 19

What has caused more obesity in the U.S?

Answer 19

Eating Patterns
Physical Activity Levels
Sleep Routines
Genetics

Question 20

Physical Activity (Exercise Recommendations)

Answer 20

Adults need at least 150 min of moderate intense aerobic activity
or
75 min of vigorous intensity aerobic activity

Question 21

Will people of Lower SES have more or less physical activity levels?

Answer 21

less

Question 22

Injury definition

Answer 22

acute exposure to physical agents

Question 23

Injury Deaths in the U.S.?

Answer 23

Unintentional - 68%
Undetermined - 2%
Homicide - 8%
Suicide - 21%

Question 24

Epidemiology of Injuries

Answer 24

Person
Time
Place

Question 25

Injury Prevention Triangle

Answer 25

Energy, Host, Environment