Section 5: Primary Health Care

Question 0

What are the 8 essential components of Primary care

Answer 0

1: Education concerning prevailing health problems and the methods of preventing and controlling them
2: Promotion of food supply and proper nutrition
3: An adequate supply of safe water and basic sanitation
4: Maternal and child health care including family planning
5: Immunization against major infectious diseases
6: Prevention and control of locally endemic diseases
7: appropriate treatment of common diseases and injuries
8: Provision of essential drugs

Question 1

What is primary health care

Answer 1

essential health care based on practical, scientifically sound and socially acceptable methods of technology made universally accessible to individuals and families in the community through their full participation and at a cost that the community and the country can afford to maintain at every stage of their development in the spirit of self determination

Question 2

What is the Healthy People 2020 program

Answer 2

-program managed by the office of disease prevention and health promotion
-science based 10year national objectives for improving the health of all americans
-can be used by many different people
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Question 3

Whats new for 2020

Answer 3

a renewed focus on identifying, measuring, tracking, and reducing health disparities through a determinants of health approach

Question 4

What is the American Public Health Association

Answer 4

largest organization of public health professionals with over 50,000 members
-APHA brings together researchers, health service providers, administrators, teachers, and other health workers in a unique multidisciplinary environment of professional exchange study and action

Question 5

What issues are confronted by APHA

Answer 5

• Federal/state funding for health programs
• chronic and infectious diseases
• pollution, smoke free society
• education in public health

Question 6

Does APHA have a Chiropractic section

Answer 6

Yes: 25th section established in 1995

Question 7

Whats the rationale for APHA having a Chiro division

Answer 7

• public health represents the efforts made by a society to protect, promote and restore health
• Public health supports prevention and health promotion
• to increase impact on society by adding chiropractic skills and knowledge to those of the rest of the public health community

Question 8

What are the achievements in public health

Answer 8

• control of infectious disease
• impact of vaccines
• motor vehicle safety
• workplace safety
• decreased CHD death
• safer food
• healthier moms and kids
• family planning
• tobacco as health hazard
• importance of fluoride for teeth

Question 9

If you have made it this far you deserve a break: Trivia Question:
In the show Seinfeld, what was George’s ATM code that he wouldn’t divulge even under duress of fire?
Bonus: What was the title of the episode?

Answer 9

BOSCO

Bonus: The Secret Code