Unit 1-A2: Assessment for “What is Public Health?

Question 1

Which of the following does not belong to the areas of Public Health?

Answer 1

-Health Protocol for the poor

Question 2

According to the American Public Health Association (2018)

“Public Health promotes and protects the health of people and the communities where they ___.___,___ and ___.

Answer 2

live, learn, work, and play.

Question 3

Public health is the science of preventing disease, prolonging life, and promoting physical health and efficacy through organized community efforts for the sanitation of the environment.

Answer 3

-TRUE

Question 4

According to Charles-Edward A. Winslow, Public health ensure the development of the social machinery which will ensure to every individual in the community a standard of living adequate for the maintenance of health.

Answer 4

-TRUE

Question 5

According to this person, “Public Health is the science and art of preventing disease, prolonging life and promoting health through organized efforts of society.”

Answer 5

-Sir Donald Acheson