Terms & Phrases
Core Functions & PH Services
Data
This & That
Health Assessment
100

Economic and social conditions that influence individual and group differences in health status

What are Social Determinants of Health?

100

Create, champion, and implement policies, plans, and laws that impact health

What is Policy Development?

100

Health disparities

What are differences in morbidity and mortality due to various causes experience by specific sub-populations?

100

Providing comprehensive patient care

What is an activity that DOES NOT fall under public health practice? (Or what is traditional health care?)

100

A process and a product.

What is community health assessment?

200

Core Public Health Functions

What are Assessment, Policy Development, & Assurance?

200

Assure a competent environmental health workforce

What is an example of a public health service related to Assurance?

200

The number of live-born infants who die before their first birthday per 1,000 live births.

What is infant mortality rate?

200

A group of cases of a specific disease clearly in excess of what one would normally expect in a particular area.

What is an epidemic?

200

Shelby County Health Department health priorities

What are Access to Health Care, Mental Health, Chronic Disease, Violence, and Poverty?

300

The systematic collection, analysis, and dissemination of health data.

What is surveillance?

300

Create, champion, and implement policies, plans, and laws that impact health.

What is an essential service under the core public function, policy development?

300

Health indicator

What is a measurement of the state of health of a specific individual, group, or population?

300

The cornerstone of public health

What is primary prevention?

300

The Community Health Assessment model used by Shelby County Health Department.

What is MAPP?

400

Using the words or ideas of another person as if they were your own, and without giving proper credit to the sources you have used.

What is plagiarism?

400

Investigate, diagnose, and address health problems and hazards affecting the population

What is Assessment?

400

This resource provides comparative health indicator data for every US county.

What is the County Health Rankings?

400

The act of intervening before a health problem occurs.

What is primary prevention?

400

This resource is useful for understanding the demographic profile of a state or county.

What is the US Census Bureau?

500

Everyone has the resources and services needed to be as healthy as possible.

What is health equity?

500

Assure an effective system that enables equitable access to the individual services and care needed to be healthy

What is assurance?

500

A resource that provides information about the leading health indicators in the US.

What is Healthy People 2030?

500

Immunization

What is an example of primary prevention?

500

Determining which public health needs are to be addressed.

What is prioritization?

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