Environmental Health
Yes or No: Is the following scenario a climate justice issue? When addressing sea level rise a community prioritizes tourist areas over a traditionally poor Latino neighborhood to receive funding for mitigation strategies
Yes
Edward Jenner
Monitoring population health is part of this core function.
Assessment
______ is defined as one’s belief in one’s ability to succeed in specific situations or accomplish a task.
Self-Efficacy
Throughout history, members of higher social classes have tended to live longer because they generally have better access to nutrition, cleaner environments, and medical care. What is this?
Socioeconomic advantage
This term describes the equitable distribution of a society’s technological and environmental risks, impacts, and benefits
Distributive justice
This statistical test would be used to compare the prevalence of asthmatic events between an intervention group and a control group.
Chi-square test
Those over age 65, with some disabilities, or with end stage renal disease are eligible for...
Medicare
This social determinant is considered the strongest overall predictor of health outcomes.
Socioeconomic status
This type of memory tends to decline with age, while long-term memory remains relatively stable.
Short-term memory
What is the most common health effect caused by exposure to Pb for children?
Impairment of physical and mental development
Are case-control studies ideal for rare exposures or rare disease?
Rare disease
Give an example of secondary prevention
In the PRECEDE-PROCEED model, this is the first step when planning a health promotion program such as increasing mammography use among low-income women.
Social assessment
By the middle of the 20th century, this became the dominant cause of death in many populations as infectious disease mortality declined.
Old age (or chronic age-related disease)
List three routes of exposure to contaminants and pathogens?
Inhalation
Contact with skin
Ingestion
An asthma intervention has no effect in urban areas but significantly improves outcomes in rural areas. This phenomenon is called this.
Effect modification
Compared to other similar countries, the United States spends more on health care. In exchange for this investment, the United States achieves worse or better health outcomes?
Worse health outcomes
This approach recognizes that a person's health behavior results from multiple influences, including personal attitudes, social and cultural beliefs, and the physical environment.
Ecological model
These factors are considered important exogenous influences on an individual's life course and aging process.
Genetics
This establishes a federal program to manage hazardous wastes from cradle to grave.
Resource Conservation and Recovery Act (RCRA)
What is the "Gold Standard" and most scientifically rigorous study design?
Randomized controlled trials
Adults who cannot afford to pay for health insurance may qualify for
Medicaid
This theory is not considered an individual-level theory because it emphasizes the interaction between individuals, their behavior, and their social environment.
Social Cognitive Theory
More people are living to older ages today because of declines in this measure and better control of infectious diseases.
Infant mortality