Public Health Exam 2

Chapter 2,7,8,9,10,11,12

Infectious diseases of public health importance: agent, host and environment factors; why is
this disease important

Identify the social determinants of health

Health disparity types

Main principles of “health in all policies”

Factors that determine human health (not social determinants of health)

Whitehall study and the association between mortality and class of workers

The concept “Unnatural Causes”

Maternal and child health disparities by race

Health disparities definition

Models of health behavior characteristics

a. Transtheoretical Model

b. Ecological Model

c. Health Behavior Framework

d. Bastani paper

Transtheoretical Model

Ecological Model

Health Behavior Framework

Bastani paper

Use of social norms

Uses of health information

Self-efficacy definition

Environmental factors and influences on behavior

Health promotion programs and prevention of disease

Adolescent behavior and health

Nicotine delivery devices (e.g., Juul)

1964 Surgeon General’s Report on Smoking

Approaches for preventing obesity

Mental health

Chronic diseases- risk (causal) factors, burden, surveillance data, prevention approaches

Influenza virus characteristics

Epidemic

Etiology

Communicable disease

Microbiome

Endemic

Pandemic

Infection Vector

Zoonosis

Virulence

Infectious disease trend in the US during the 20th century as a cause of death and public
health burden.

Elements of the chain of infection

Transmission of infectious diseases

Human defenses against infection- mechanisms

Types of vaccines

Herd immunity

Environmental control strategies for infectious disease 29. HIV – AIDS- transmission,

prevention, and screening 30. Chronic disease terms:

Risk Factor

Disability

Genetic

Chronic

Carcinogenesis

Risk Factor

Disability

Genetic

Chronic

Carcinogenesis

Diseases that are both infectious and chronic diseases

Characteristics of diabetes

types

burden

prevention

etiology

Genetic disorders

Origins of COVID 19

Prevention strategies for birth defects/disorders 35. COVID19 basic terms

a. Variants

b. Suppression

c. Epidemic curve

d. Mitigation

e. Antiv