COBH 2000 Exam 1

What is Public Health defined as?

The science and art of preventing disease, prolonging life, and promoting health through organized efforts and informed choices of society, organizations, public and private communities, and individuals.

Public Health definition 2

What a society deems acceptable.

Public Health aims to provide ____ with the right to be healthy and live in conditions that support health.

groups of people

What does IOM stand for?

Institute of Medicine 

What does IOM say the mission of Public Health is?

“Fulfilling society’s interest in assuring conditions in which people can be healthy.”

What does WHO say the mission of Public Health is?

Public health aims to provide maximum benefit for the largest number of people

Key term: Clinical Care

Prevention, treatment, and management of illness, and the preservation of mental and physical well-being through the services offered by medical and allied health professions, also known as healthcare.

Key term: Determinant

Factor that contributes to the generation of a trait

Key term: Epidemic or outbreak

Occurrence in a community or region of cases of an illness, specific health-related behavior, or both health-related events clearly in excess of normal expectancy. Both terms are used interchangeably; however, epidemic usually refers to a larger geographic distribution of illness or health-related events.

Key terms: Health outcome

result of a medical condition that directly affects the length or quality of a person’s life

A(n) _____ is a disease occurrence among a population that is in excess of what is expected for a given time and place

epidemic or outbreak

When was the Public Health Act established in the UK?

1848

What acted as the beginning of a commitment to proactive public health, to improve sewer drainage, provide clean drinking water, and remove refuse from streets and houses. Was also the act that established the General Board of Health

The Public Health Act of 1848

What does EPA stand for?

Environmental Protection Agency

When was the EPA founded?

1970

What pandemic affected 500 million people worldwide in 1918?

Influenza

What vaccine was introduced in 1955; eradication initiative launched in 1988

Polio 

What infection has impacted 34 million people worldwide, but has had a 20% infection decline since 2001?

HIV

What was the world’s first written health code?

Book of Leviticus

What was the plague used as a weapon of war during the Siege of Kaffa considered?

Biologic warfare

What is Cholera?

A fatal intestinal disease, thought to be caused by bad air from rotting organic matter.

Who is considered the father of modern epidemiology?

John Snow

What did John Snow do?

He traced the source of the cholera outbreak in 1800s London

Each public health core science helps us to ___ and ____ the public’s health by providing public health practitioners with the answers they need.

protect and promote

What are the Public Health core sciences? (1/5)

Epidemiology

What are the Public Health core sciences? (2/5)

Laboratory

What are the Public Health core sciences? (3/5)

Informatics

What are the Public Health core sciences? (4/5)

Surveillance

What are the Public Health core sciences? (5/5)

Prevention Effectiveness

What is the order of a Public Health approach?

Surveillance

Risk Factor Identification 

Intervention Evaluation

Implementation 

Match: Risk Factor Identification 

What is the cause?

Match: Surveillance

What is the problem?

Match: Implementation

How do you do it?

Match: Intervention Evaluation

What works?

What are the three core functions of public health?

Assessment

Policy Development

Assurance

Which of the following is NOT a core function of public health?

Authority