Unit 1

Question 1

Hep. C

Answer 1

• Dr Charity dean was the public health official for Santa Barbra.
• Woman learns she has Hep C after donating blood.
• Hep C is famously blood borne, woman was a usual donor which let officials know that she had contracted it recently.
• Dr Hosea, who mentored Dr Dean, taught her the importance of of figuring out a patients social/communicative life through casual dialogue.
• The Thomashesky clinic which was a stem cell clinic was shut down for their lack of sanitation and professionalism thats needed with handling blood.
• the CDC was the villian/ made it hard for her to effectively do her job.

Question 2

West Nile

Answer 2

• Case is surrounding the blood and organ donor supply
• A girl died and her organs were split up among patients who needed them, Soon after the transplants got their surgery, most of the recievers started getting sick. Could have been a coincidence but was investigated. First break through was that the swelling of a mans brain which was caused by encephalitis which narrowed down the virus. One patient who recieved her heart had been in the hospital for a while before his surgery which led them to know that he got west nile sometime within his stay in the hospital. West Nile had been known to be transmitted through mosquitoes which would have been virtually impossible due to how hospitals are set up. The donor recievers got west nile from the accident victim who had gotten west nile from a blood transfusion during some of her hospital stay.
• With the use of surveys and cdc lab results, they were able to narrow down which blood donor possibly has west nile.
• This case caused for blood donators to be tested for west nile

Question 3

Most effective way to control infectious disease?

Answer 3

Quarentine

Question 4

Two diseases that causes the most suffering during the middle ages.

Answer 4

Bubonic Plague and Leprosy

Question 5

Health and Mortality has been connected in the response to ________________

Answer 5

Leprosy

Question 6

Early public health intervention tactic

Answer 6

Prevention

Question 7

Why did Chadwick fall out of power?

Answer 7

There was objection about his push for state to be involved in the health of the public

Question 8

What is the Colombian Exchange in the context of public health?

Answer 8

Spread of disease inbthe colonial era where things like Malaria, smallpox and syphillis were exposed to populations that wouldnt have otherwise been exposed to it.

Question 9

What early-era disease was accompanied with the social impact of stigma and quarentine?

Answer 9

Leprosy

Question 10

Who was the figure head for polio?

Answer 10

FDR- Franklin Roosevelt

Question 11

Who is Typhoid Mary?

Answer 11

A woman who had typhoid, although she was asymptomatic she still spread the disease and was held in confinement.

Question 12

Finish the statement “As infectious disease rates decreased, …”

Answer 12

other causes of death seemed more important

Question 13

After world war ll, how did public health try to address the problem of smoking?

Answer 13

The use of persuasion through mass media campaigns.

Question 14

What does NIMBY mean and how does that relate to the opioid crisis?

Answer 14

This means “ Not in my back yard” and this relates to the opiod crsis because when when thinking of areas to create addiction treatment centers etc, people want the resource but dont want it near them .

Question 15

How many students ride a school bus each day in the US?

Answer 15

25 Million

Question 16

What does ACE stand for?

Answer 16

Adverse Childhood Experiences.

Question 17

What does Leana Wen say is essential for handling unpredictable crisis situations? (Think three things”

Answer 17

Clear leadership, flexibility and clear communication

Question 18

What does it mean to look upstream in public health?

Answer 18

To go upstream in public health means to look at the thing creating the problem or illness and try to prevent the problem from even happening.

Question 19

What is the con of using assumptions in emergency planning?

Answer 19

Sometimes assumptions are wrong and or make incorrect hypothetical data which can be misleading.

Question 20

What is Smiths idea of government?

Answer 20

Think selfish; everyone should act in their own self interest which will accidentally benefit the whole. This doesnt involve government help.

Question 21

What is Hobbs idea of government?

Answer 21

Think help, The governments role is to protect people from each other.

Question 22

What is Benthams idea of government?

Answer 22

Think “best case”; he wanted to do the greatest amount of good for the greatest amount of people possible.

Question 23

The first successful vaccine was made for what disease?

Answer 23

Small Pox

Question 24

What is Cholera?

Answer 24

A bacterial infection that is water borne and results in vomiting and severe diarrhea.

Question 25

How is measles spread?

Answer 25

Measles is highly contagious and is spread through air.

Question 26

Name one thing Dr Wen did that was successful during emergency response?

Answer 26

any answer like the expertise of team, crisis mentality, outreach into community, think about aftermath etc.

Question 27

Swiss Cheese concept is?

Answer 27

when u stack several slices of swiss cheese on one another all the holes should seemingly be covered but sometimes theres a gap. Public health thinks about how to close that gap so that emergencies and or issues dont result from it.