Exam 2 — Origins, History, World Health

Question 1

Epidemic vs. endemic (persons name)

Answer 1

Hippocrates

Question 2

Attempt to care for poor in 17th century England

Answer 2

Elizabethan Poor Act

Question 3

Bills of Mortality (person’s name)

Answer 3

John Graunt

Question 4

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

Answer 4

Bills of Mortality

Question 5

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

Answer 5

Vital statistics

Question 6

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

Answer 6

Edwin Chadwik, also Dickens “Oliver Twist”

Question 7

How was Florence Nightingale influential

Answer 7

Rise of nursing and famous for work in Crimean War

Question 8

______ disease radically affected native populations of U.S.

Answer 8

Epidemic

Question 9

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

Answer 9

Smallpox

Question 10

What was associated with urbanization and immigration?

Answer 10

Epidemics in early America

Question 11

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

Answer 11

• Immigration from Europe increased
• African Americans moved north
• Asian immigration
• westward Expansion

Question 12

First response to public health at the local level?

Answer 12

State agencies

Question 13

U.S. Public Health Service

Answer 13

Marine Hospital Service to care for merchant seaman

Question 14

What did the social security act try do?

Answer 14

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

Question 15

What was a response to the Great Depression?

Answer 15

Social Security Act of 1935

Question 16

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

Answer 16

Medicare

Medicaid

Question 17

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

Answer 17

• agricultural underdevelopment
• poverty
• malnutrition
• parasitic infection
• social injustice, social hierarchy
• suppression of women
• racism, religious intolerance

Question 18

Established in 1948 as an agency of the United Nations and has regional centers on every continent

Answer 18

World Health Organization (WHO)

Question 19

What organization believes health is a basic human right

Answer 19

World Health Organization (WHO)

Question 20

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

Answer 20

Pan American Health Organization

Question 21

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

Answer 21

Pan American Health Organization

Question 22

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

Answer 22

United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF)

Question 23

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

Answer 23

• Food and supplies
• Disease control
• Family planning
• Child development

Question 24

What government organization is responsible for most non-military foreign aid?

Answer 24

Agency for International Development (USAID)

Question 25

What is the largest health program in the world?

Answer 25

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

Question 26

Michael leaving is the Secretary for what organization?

Answer 26

Department of Health and Human Services (DHHS)

Question 27

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

Answer 27

Department of Health and Human Services (DHHS)

Question 28

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

Answer 28

Surgeon General

Question 29

Largest health program worldwide?

Answer 29

Department of Health and Human Services (DHHS)

Question 30

Name the 4 orgs within DHHS

Answer 30

- USPHS (U.S. Public Health Service) - FDA (Food and Drug Admin) - CDC (Centers for Disease Control) - NIH (National Institutes for Health)

Question 31

What is Primary health care?

Answer 31

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

Question 32

8 Essential components of primary care:

Answer 32

- 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

Question 33

Science-based, 10-year national objectives for improving the health of all Americans

Answer 33

Healthy People 2020

Question 34

Largest organization of public health care workers world wide?

Answer 34

American Public Health Association

Question 35

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

Answer 35

1995

Question 36

What are some achievements of the American Public Health Association?

Answer 36

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

Question 37

Classic experiment using cowpox to protect against smallpox (person’s name)

Answer 37

Edward Jenner

Question 38

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

Answer 38

John Snow

Question 39

How did John Snow end the cholera outbreak?

Answer 39

Removing the pump handle to the public water pump