chapter 1 and 2

Question 1

as the science and the art of preventing disease,prolonging life, and promoting physical health and efficiency

Answer 1

The Public Health

Question 2

______ defined Public Health as the science and the art of preventing disease,
prolonging life, and promoting physical health and efficiency

Answer 2

Charles Edward Amory Winslow

Question 3

refers to a group of people who share a common place, experience or interest.

Answer 3

Community

Question 4

It focuses on the maintenance, protection, and improvement of the health status of population groups and communities. it is a distinct field of study that may be taught
within a separate school of public health or environmental health.

Answer 4

Community health

Question 5

the number of individuals within a population who have a particular
disease at a given time.

Answer 5

Disease prevalence

Question 6

the number of new cases of a particular disease within a population in a
given period of time.

Answer 6

Disease incidence

Question 7

important tool for achieving public health goals because policies can reach a wide range of people.

Answer 7

Health policy

Question 8

: covers a series of activities at the community level aimed at bringing
about desired improvement in the social well-being of individuals, groups and neighborhood.

Answer 8

Community organization

Question 9

often used synonymous to community work, community development and community mobilizations.

Answer 9

Community organization

Question 10

it is the range of personal, social, economic and environmental factors that influence health status

Answer 10

Determinants of health

Question 11

Impact a wide range
of health, and quality
of life outcomes

Answer 11

Social Factors

Question 12

Example of
determinants: Age,
Sex, HIV status,
family history and
inherited
conditions

Answer 12

Biology and
Genetics

Question 13

➢ Is the response of individuals or group of people to internal and external stimuli.
➢ Refers to the array of physical action and observable emotion associated with individuals.

Answer 13

Human Behavior

Question 14

➢ Refers to any activity undertaken by an individual, regardless of actual or perceived
health status, for the purpose of promoting, protecting or maintaining health,
whether or not such behavior is objectively effective toward that end.

Answer 14

Health Behavior

Question 15

➢ It is the interests, opinions, behaviors and behavioral orientations of an individual,
group or culture.
➢ Lifestyle was introduced by Alfred Adler which means “A person`s basic character
as established early in childhood”

Answer 15

Lifestyle