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Exam 2 — Origins, History, World Health Flashcards

1
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Epidemic vs. endemic (persons name)

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Hippocrates

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2
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Attempt to care for poor in 17th century England

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Elizabethan Poor Act

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3
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Bills of Mortality (person’s name)

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John Graunt

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4
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First vital statistics ever compiled (name of the statistical report)

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Bills of Mortality

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5
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Recording the birth and death of individuals within a government’s jurisdiction

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Vital statistics

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6
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Workhouse reforms were called for by 2 parties (1. person’s name and 2. book)

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Edwin Chadwik, also Dickens “Oliver Twist”

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How was Florence Nightingale influential

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Rise of nursing and famous for work in Crimean War

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8
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______ disease radically affected native populations of U.S.

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Epidemic

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9
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Most well-known epidemic disease that affected native populations of U.S.

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Smallpox

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10
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What was associated with urbanization and immigration?

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Epidemics in early America

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What 4 immigration patterns influenced the U.S. after the Civil War?

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  • Immigration from Europe increased
  • African Americans moved north
  • Asian immigration
  • westward Expansion
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12
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First response to public health at the local level?

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State agencies

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13
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U.S. Public Health Service

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Marine Hospital Service to care for merchant seaman

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14
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What did the social security act try do?

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Overcome depression hardships by providing money to poor, elderly, disabled, unemployed

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15
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What was a response to the Great Depression?

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Social Security Act of 1935

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16
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Harry Truman asked congress for a national health plan. Lyndon Johnson signed two programs into law:

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Medicare

Medicaid

17
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What are 7 problems that affect developing countries and have an impact on the health of citizens?

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  • agricultural underdevelopment
  • poverty
  • malnutrition
  • parasitic infection
  • social injustice, social hierarchy
  • suppression of women
  • racism, religious intolerance
18
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Established in 1948 as an agency of the United Nations and has regional centers on every continent

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World Health Organization (WHO)

19
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What organization believes health is a basic human right

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World Health Organization (WHO)

20
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What organization has a goal to improve health and living standards in the Americas?

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Pan American Health Organization

21
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What organization became a regional office of WHO yet retains own identity and mission?

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Pan American Health Organization

22
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What organization’s mission is to protect the rights of children?

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United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF)

23
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United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF) includes 4 things:

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  • Food and supplies
  • Disease control
  • Family planning
  • Child development
24
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What government organization is responsible for most non-military foreign aid?

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Agency for International Development (USAID)

25
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What is the largest health program in the world?

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U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (DHHS)

26
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Michael leaving is the Secretary for what organization?

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Department of Health and Human Services (DHHS)

27
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The U.S. Public Health Service is part of what organization?

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Department of Health and Human Services (DHHS)

28
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U.S. Public Health Service commissioned corps under the leadership of who?

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Surgeon General

29
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Largest health program worldwide?

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Department of Health and Human Services (DHHS)

30
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Name the 4 orgs within DHHS

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  • USPHS (U.S. Public Health Service)
  • FDA (Food and Drug Admin)
  • CDC (Centers for Disease Control)
  • NIH (National Institutes for Health)
31
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What is Primary health care?

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essential health care based on practical, scientifically sound and socially acceptable methods and technology that was made universally accessible to individuals and families in the community

32
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8 Essential components of primary care:

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  • education
  • promotion of food supply and nutrition
  • safe water, basic sanitation
  • maternal and child health care
  • immunization
  • prevention of endemic disease
  • treatment of common disease
  • provision of drugs
33
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Science-based, 10-year national objectives for improving the health of all Americans

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Healthy People 2020

34
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Largest organization of public health care workers world wide?

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American Public Health Association

35
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When did the American Public Health Association add a section for chiropractic health care?

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1995

36
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What are some achievements of the American Public Health Association?

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  1. Control of infectious disease
  2. Impact of vaccinations
  3. Motor vehicle safety
  4. Workplace safety
  5. Decrease in CHD death
  6. Safer food
  7. Healthier moms and kids
  8. Family planning
  9. Tobacco
  10. Fluoride for teeth
37
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Classic experiment using cowpox to protect against smallpox (person’s name)

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Edward Jenner

38
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Who made the observation that outbreak of cholera was linked to public water pump?

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John Snow

39
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How did John Snow end the cholera outbreak?

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Removing the pump handle to the public water pump

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