Test 1 Intro

Question 1

What is the #1 cause of death?

Answer 1

heart disease

Question 2

What is the #2 cause of death?

Answer 2

cancer

Question 3

What is the #3 cause of death?

Answer 3

respiratory disease

Question 4

What is available in response to increased opioid usage?

Answer 4

naloxone

Question 5

What is a common cause of bankruptcy?

Answer 5

health

Question 6

Global definition of public health

Answer 6

• “Implementation of activities with collective action to improve the health of a population”
• preventing disease and restoring health

Question 7

smallpox

Answer 7

• if you didn’t die, you developed lifelong immunity and scars
• contact spread

Question 8

Benedict Arnold

Answer 8

• lead American troops attacking Quebec
• did not take any precautions
• 1/3 of his troop was sick

Question 9

smallpox inoculations

Answer 9

cut a person and introduced a part of the scab into to their body; 10 time less likely to die; only 3-5% died from this

Question 10

Death of a President

Answer 10

• first removed 14 ounces of blood
• gurgled mixture of vinegar, butter, and molasses
• removed another 18 ounces of blood
• removed another 18 ounces of blood
• removed another 32 ounce of blood
• applied topical mercury

Question 11

Rush’s thunderclappers

Answer 11

• primarily mercury chloride

- caused excessive diarrhea

Question 12

Who got shot in the Lewis and Clark Expedition and how did they survive?

Answer 12

• Lewis got shot

- his wound was irrigated using water from the Mississippi River

Question 13

cholera

Answer 13

• rapid loss of bodily fluids -> dehydration and diarrhea

- spread through water contamination

Question 14

John Snow

Answer 14

correlated water contamination to cholera by creating a map and charting where people were dying

Question 15

Tobacco use

Answer 15

• Cigarette manufacturing industry developed after civil war
• Army doctors thought cigs helped wounded to relax
• people smoked in movies
• higher chance of having lung cancer

Question 16

What happened upon the return of the people from Apollo 11?

Answer 16

they were quarantined for 3 weeks

Question 17

compounding pharmacy crossing state borders

Answer 17

• New England Compounding center in Boston
• there were shortages of drugs and the pharmacy compounded them
• pts in surgery were dying and having infections

Question 18

Food & Drug Act 1906

Answer 18

regulated adulterated products and false claims

Question 19

Food Drug & cosmetic Act 1938

Answer 19

require proof of safety prior to marketing

Question 20

Kefauver- Harris Amendment

Answer 20

Ensure safety AND effectiveness prior to marketing

Question 21

OTC drug review 1972

Answer 21

Safety, effectiveness of over-the-counter products

Question 22

Tamper Resistant Regulations 1982

Answer 22

made it a crime to tamper with products-tamper proof packaging

Question 23

What event took place to encourage the Tamper Resistant Regulations 1982?

Answer 23

tylenol poisoning; someone replaced the powder in the capsules with cyanide

Question 24

How did they get Elixir Sulfanilamide off the shelf?

Answer 24

• because it wasn’t an elixir
• it was a suspension and was misbranded
• couldn’t get it off the shelf even though children died from it

Question 25

Health promotion

Answer 25

actions that advocate to maintain or improve people’s physical / mental / social well-being

Question 26

3 strategies for health promotion

Answer 26

• Provide people with information
• Modifying the environment
• Providing information while at the same time modifying the environment to meet the needs