Sessions 01 and 03 (there is no 2) - Overview and Models

Question 1

10 EPHS

Answer 1

Under ASSESSMENT:

1. Monitor Health
2. Diagnose and Investigate

Under POLICY DEVELOPMENT

3. Inform, Educate, Empower
4. Mobilize Community Partnerships
5. Develop Policies

Under ASSURANCE

6. Enforce Laws
7. Link to/Provide Care
8. Assure Competent Workforce
9. Evaluate

Under RESEARCH
10. Research

Question 2

Current definition of PH

Answer 2

“What we as a society
do collectively to assure
the conditions in which people
can be healthy.”

• 1988 Institute of Medicine Report

Question 3

What year did John Snow take away the Broad Street Pump?

Answer 3

1854 - first known act of civil disobedience to protect PH

Question 4

Broad PH Eras in America

Answer 4

• Pre-1850 – battling epidemics
• 1850-1949 – building state and local PH health infrastructure. Community clinics, pre-natal care, etc.

-1950-1999 – filling gaps in medical care delivery
AIDS epidemic – issues of distribution, etc.

-After 1999 – preparing for and responding to community health threats
Problem: not being proactive
-NOTE: does not include chronic disease!

Question 5

Components of the Ecological Model/EcoSocial Theory

Answer 5

Societal –> Community –> Relationship –> Individual

Basically moving from the individual to gradually outward (from individual to planetary system)

(Actually a 2-way road)