Lecture 1

Question 1

What is Public Health?

Answer 1

It aims to provide maximum benefit for the largest number of people.

Question 2

Public Health* V.S. Medicine

Answer 2

• Primary focus on the popular
• Emphasis on prevention for whole community
• employs a spectrum of interventions aimed at: environment, human behavior, lifestyle and medical care
• multiple profession identities with diffuse public image
• In a way ahead of medicine

Question 3

Public health V.S. Medicine*

Answer 3

• Primary Focus on the Individual
• Emphasis on diagnosis and treatment; care for patient
• medical paradigm places predominant emphasis on medical care
• Well-established profession with defined public image

Question 4

Primary prevention

Answer 4

Health promotion and prevention of disease transmission.
Stage: Pre-disease
Actions: Health promotion and prevention of disease transmission and development
Target: Everyone and those at higher risk of disease development
EX: Immunizations, Smoking prevention: cessation programs, comprehensive sex ed

Question 5

Secondary Prevention

Answer 5

Pre-symtomatic diagnosis and early treatment
Stage: latent/asymtomatic
Action: Early detection
Target: those with early stages
EX: Yearly breast cancer screenings, regular colonoscopies for those 50+

Question 6

Tertiary Prevention

Answer 6

Symptom management and Disability limitation
Stage: symptomatic
Action: symptom management, increases quality of life
Target: those with symptomatic illness
EX: Insulin education for people with diabetes, disability limitation at home and in the work place, physical therapy and rehab.

Question 7

Identifying Disease Etiology: Causation

Answer 7

Identification of an organism, virus, social or behavioral factor that causes a specific health outcome.
EX: Corona Virus Causes Covid-19, Obesity and poor dietary choices and inactivity causes type II diabetes

Question 8

Causation

Answer 8

Is a specific relationship where factor A causes Factor B to occur

Question 9

Correlation

Answer 9

is a relationship between two factors, but one does not cause the other, or there is a possible third factor that is related to both factor A and Factor B.
Factor C is known as the confounding factor

Question 10

Statistical Forecasting

Answer 10

utilizes historical data and statistics to forecast potential events

Question 11

Surveillence

Answer 11

is the continuous, systematic collection, analysis and interpretation of health-related data needed for the planning, implementation, and evaluation of public health practice.

Question 12

Education

Answer 12

any manner of information sharing that can affect a person’s choices or ability to alter a health outcome.

Question 13

Health Policy as a preventative tool

Answer 13

Guide, alter or enforce particular actions
Direct financial supplementation to health issues and preventative strategies