Exam 1

Question 1

Occurs after the development of a disease or risk factor, but before symptoms appear.

Answer 1

secondary

Question 2

Occurs after the initial occurrence of symptoms, but before irreversible disability.

Answer 2

tertiary

Question 3

What is the “P” in PERIE process?

Answer 3

Problem

Question 4

often useful for displaying the changes in the age of distribution that occur over time.

Answer 4

population pyramids

Question 5

The number of new cases of a disease in a year divided by the number of people in the at-risk population.

Answer 5

Incidence

Question 6

Efforts to change behavior based on info.

Answer 6

Information/Education

Question 7

Implies that as social and economic development occurs, different types of diseases become prominent .

Answer 7

Epidemiological Transition

Question 8

What works to reduce health impact?

Answer 8

Recommendation

Question 9

How can we get the job done?

Answer 9

Implementation

Question 10

How well does the intervention work in practice?

Answer 10

Evaluation

Question 11

The number of people living with a disease divided by the number of people in the at-risk population.

Answer 11

Prevelance

Question 12

Required by law or institutional sanction.

Answer 12

obligation

Question 13

Rewards to encourage/discourage.

Answer 13

motivation

Question 14

Implies that countries frequently move from poorly balanced diets often deficient in nutrients, proteins, and calories to a diet of highly processed food, including fats, sugars, and salts.

Answer 14

nutritional transition

Question 15

What is/are the contributory causes?

Answer 15

Etiology

Question 16

Takes place BEFORE the onset of the disease.

Answer 16

primary intervention

Question 17

Coordination of public health and healthcare delivery based upon shared evidence-based systems thinking: Antibiotic resistance, global collaboration, and climate change.

Answer 17

population health

Question 18

APHA
Demonstration of infection as origins of disease.
Germ Theory (Louis Pasteur)

Answer 18

Contagion Contra

Question 19

• “savior of mothers”
• Early pioneer of antiseptic procedures
• Determined Puerperal fever (childbed fever) could be reduced by requiring hand washing in obstetrical clinics

Answer 19

Ignaz Semmelweis

Question 20

• 1850’s
• “Father of Epidemiology
• Established importance of careful data collection, and documentation of rates of disease before and after intervention to evaluate effectiveness.
• Closing of Broad-Street Pump-Chlorea-Containment water

Answer 20

John Snow

Question 21

The totality of all evidence-based public and private efforts throughout the life cycle that preserve and promote health and prevent disease, disability (morbidity), and death.

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Public Health

Question 22

• Late 1700’s
• English physician
• Noted that couopox could protect against smallpox

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Edward Jenner

Question 23

Education income, race

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socioeconomic cultural

Question 24

Access to physicians, supplies, vaccines, etc..
The quality of medical care.

Answer 24

Medical care

Question 25

Natural physical world Your house causing asthma could be of mold.

Answer 25

Environment

Question 26

Roles that genetic factors play in the development/outcome of disease.

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Genetics

Question 27

Actions that increase exposure to factors that produce disease or protect individuals from disease.

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behavior

Question 28

- 1951 - cervical cancer - while receiving from her cervix without her knowledge - cells, nickname "Helia", contributed to significant advances in scientific and medical research

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Henrietta Lacks

Question 29

- Medicaid and Medicare were developed to assist those without the benefit of private medical care - Antibiotics, the concept of risk factors, and control of specific communicable diseases are also addressed during this era

Answer 29

Filling holes in the medical care system

Question 30

Focus of this era was improving the sanitary conditions for improved health

Answer 30

hygiene movement

Question 31

often the direct cause of disease

Answer 31

infection

Question 32

1980s american teenager, acquired HIV through contaminated blood treatment due to lack of understanding about HIV/AIds

Answer 32

Ryan White

Question 33

Long throught to be an infectious disease. United states public health service established it was a nutritional deficiency easily prevented or cured with vitamin B-6 or balanced diet

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Pellagra

Question 34

British naval commander demonstarted the effect of citrus fruit

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James Lind

Question 35

Focus is on individual behavior and disease detection in vulnerable

Answer 35

Health promotion

Question 36

The impact of falling childhood death rates and extended life spans on the size and the age distrubution of populations

Answer 36

demographic transition

Question 37

special locations are required to produce disease

Answer 37

Geography

Question 38

Religious and cultural practices provided the framework for individual and community behaviors

Answer 38

Health protection