Public Health Definitions
The science and art of preventing disease, promoting health and well-being and prolonging life through the organised efforts of society
What is public health?
What type of public health organization is established by subnational or local governments to administer manage fiscal and human resources management and regulate public health and safety for the citizens?
What is public health department?
Definition: field of public health that addresses physical, chemical, biological, social, and psychosocial factors in the environment
Answer with term.
What is environmental health?
What are the three types of prevention?
What are primary, secondary, tertiary preventions?
What is a set of concepts, constructs, definitions, and propositions that help explain and predict events or situations by illustrating relationships between variables?
What is a theory?
"A state of complete physical, mental and social well-being and not merely the absence of disease or infirmity"
What is health?
What type of public health organization is established by subnational or local governments to administer manage fiscal and human resources management and regulate public health and safety for the citizens?
Who is the health commissioner?
Silent Spring and disasters, such as Love Canal, Minamata, led to the recognition of what type of environmental health issue?
What are chemical hazards?
Who is the father of epidemiology?
Who is John Snow?
What are individual characteristics that influence behavior, such as knowledge, attitudes, beliefs, and personality traits?
What is intrapersonal factors?
An inherent human characteristic, a behavior, or an environmental exposure that is associated with an increased probability of experiencing a health-related state or event
What is risk factor?
What national system identified below provides coordination and control during public health emergencies?
a. The National Public Response System
b. The National Incident Management System
c. The Integrated Emergency Management System
d. The Presidential Disaster System
e. The National Integrated Response System
What is The National Incident Management System (B)?
Which environmental policy act gave EPA authority to regulate solid and hazardous waste, required hazardous waste tracking, generation to treatment/disposal, and construction standards for new solid waste landfills?
What is the Resource Conservation and Recovery Act (RCRA) 1976?
What is any insect or living carrier that transports infectious agent from infected individual or its waste to a susceptible individual or its food?
What is a vector?
Which model addresses people's beliefs about whether or not they susceptible to disease, and their perceptions of the benefits of trying to avoid it, influenced their readiness to act?
What is Health Belief Model?
Aims to prevent a disease developing in the first place
ex) vaccines
What is primary prevention?
Who is primarily responsible for providing "training" for employees within an organization?
a. Chief Executive Officers
b. Managers
c. Employees
d. Job Applicants
e. Executives
Who are managers (B)?
What percentage of U.S. households use pesticides? (Hint: residential exposure to pesticide is common, more than 50%)
What is 80%?
What is used to show distribution of the times of onset for cases occurring during an outbreak called?
Which model describes individuals' motivation and readiness to change a behavior, behavior change is a process, not an event, and it is easy to relapse at any stage?
What is Transtheoretical Model?
any difference in disease or health status between population groups in which disparities are measured in comparison to the most favorable group or segment of the population
What are health disparities?
What document identified below mirrors the 10 essential public health services to assist members of a board of health identify and establish goals to improve the health and well-being of its citizens and communities?
a. National Defense Development Act
b. Public Health Policy Standards
c. Articles of Public Health Governance
d. National Public Health Performance Standards
e. Public Health Governance Policy Standards
What is the National Public Health Performance Standards (D)?
Accelerating rates of species extinction, increasing amounts of reactive nitrogen in the environment, and massive swaths of natural ecosystems being converted for human use; Includes increases in Greenhouse gases, floods, deforestation, paper use, biodiversity loss, urban population, fast food restaurants, and vehicles, among others
What is the Great Acceleration?
What is the number of EXISTING CASES of a disease or health condition in a population at some designated time. Time can be short or long; =incidence x duration of disease
What is prevalence?
Which theory describes a dynamic, ongoing process in which personal factors, environmental factors, and human behavior exert influence upon each other?
What is social cognitive theory?