Deck 1: Public Health: Science, Politics, and Prevention

Question 1

According to one analysis, the life expectancy of Americans has increased from 47 to 77 years over the course of the 20^th century. How many of these 30 additional years can be attributed to the work of the medical care system?

A) 5 years
B) 10 years
C) 15 years
D) 25 years

Answer 1

A

Question 2

Which of the following sciences, a classic component of public health, is concerned with preventing the spread of disease through water, air, and food?

A) Epidemiology
B) Toxicology
C) Microbiology
D) Environmental health science

Answer 2

D

Question 3

Efforts to discourage teenagers from smoking and efforts to encourage smokers to quit is an example of what type of prevention?

A) Primary prevention
B) Secondary prevention
C) Tertiary prevention
D) Quaternary prevention

Answer 3

A

Question 4

The focus of Public Health on prevention makes it more focused than medicine and its achievements are, therefore, more easily recognized.

Question 5

It is estimated that less than 3% of the nation's total health spending is spent on public health.

Question 6

When a doctor performs a test on a patient's abnormally curved spine, this is an example of assurance.

Question 7

In public health, policy development mostly concerns itself with diagnostic issues at various levels of healthcare delivery.

Question 8

Public health involves both health promotion and the prevention of disease.

Question 9

The public health response to the September 11, 2001 attacks was essentially the same as the response needed for other emergencies and disasters such as factory explosions, plane crashes, earthquakes, and hurricanes.

Question 10

_____________________ deaths are prevented each year by the newly improved pneumococcal conjugate vaccine used with infants.

Question 11

_____________________ are used in public health to prevent a range of problematic outcomes, such as epidemics of acute disease and increases in chronic disease.

Question 12

_____________________ prevention comes into play in the case of an active outbreak of influenza.

Question 13

The threat of _____________________ did more to teach the public about public health than any educational program.

Question 14

whats the following terms to the appropriate description.
-Constitutes a diagnostic function in which a public health agency collects, assembles, analyzes, and makes available information on the health of the population.

Question 15

whats the following terms to the appropriate description.
-Involves the use of scientific knowledge to incorporate a strategic approach to improving the community's health.

Question 16

whats the following terms to the appropriate description.
-Services needed for the protection of public health in the community are available and accessible to everyone.

Question 17

whats the following terms to the appropriate description.
-Focuses on human populations, usually starting with an outbreak of disease in a community.

Question 18

whats the following terms to the appropriate description.
-Disease-causing bacterium or virus.

Question 19

whats the following terms to the appropriate description.
-Susceptible human being.

Question 20

whats the following terms to the appropriate description.
-Renders a potential host unsusceptible.

Question 21

whats the following terms to the appropriate description.
-Kills the bacteria infecting a host.

Question 22

In the mid-19th century, what was the single largest cause of death?

A) Smallpox
B) Typhoid
C) Cholera
D) Tuberculosis

Question 23

The discovery of which of the following allowed medicine to gain the power to work miracles of healing, leading to a period of rapidly growing influence?

A) Immunizations
B) Antibiotics
C) Stem Cells
D) Monoclonal Antibodies

Question 24

What type of prevention seeks to minimize the severity of the illness or the damage due to an injury-causing event once the event has occurred?

A) Primary Prevention
B) Secondary Prevention
C) Tertiary Prevention
D) Quaternary Prevention

Question 25

Unless something unusual happens, like the outbreak of Cryptosporidium in the Milwaukee water supply, people assume that they are basically safe.

Question 26

Public health is generally easy to define.

Question 27

A 1999 survey showed that about half of registered voters did not understand what public health means.

Question 28

When the Institute of Medicine reexamined the definition of public health, it concentrated mostly on disease prevention.

Question 29

Even when public health scientists are certain they know all about the causes of a problem and what should be done about it, a political decision is generally necessary before action can be taken to solve it.

Question 30

As biomedical and environmental sciences have conquered many of the diseases that killed people of previous generations, people in modern societies are dying of diseases caused by their behavior and the social environment.

Question 31

As part of the ___________________ function, public health seeks to understand the medical care system in an area of study generally referred to as health policy and management or health administration, which also includes the administration and functioning of the public health system.

Question 32

Concerns about runaway costs, lack of access, and questionable quality of care has led to an increasing interest in studying the medical care system, its effectiveness, efficiency, and equity, leading to a science called_______________________.

Question 33

The first step in taking public health action is to _______________________ the problem.

Question 34

An increasing rate of smoking among a small town's teen population is a(n) _______________________.

Question 35

Whats the appropriate description of the aspects of the four-part definition of Public Health?
-Mission of Public Health

Question 36

Whats the appropriate description of the aspects of the four-part definition of Public Health?
-Substance of Public Health

Question 37

Whats the appropriate description of the aspects of the four-part definition of Public Health?
-Organizational Framework of Public Health

Question 38

Whats the appropriate description of the aspects of the four-part definition of Public Health?
-Core Functions of Public Health

Question 39

Whats the appropriate description of the aspects of the four-part definition of Public Health?
-Statistics

Question 40

Whats the appropriate description of the aspects of the four-part definition of Public Health?
-Biomedical Sciences

Question 41

Whats the appropriate description of the aspects of the four-part definition of Public Health?
-Environmental Health Science