Intro to Public Health
The art and science of preventing disease and promoting healthy life style
What is public health?
A model developed to explain and predict health-related behaviors
What is the Health Belief Model?
The national health education honorary at UT
What is Eta Sigma Gamma?
Cleaning hands with soap and water for 20 seconds
The easiest and most practical way to prevent illness?
The number of existing cases
What is the prevalence?
The leading national public health institute of the United States
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention?
Pre-contemplation, Contemplation, Determination, Action, Maintenance, and Termination
What are the stages of Change Model?
The silent killer
What is high blood pressure?
The father of Epidemiology
Is is John Snow?
The study and causes of differences in the quality of health and healthcare across different populations
What are health disparities?
WHO, APHA, SOPHE, NIH
Are these public health organizations?
Intrapersonal, Interpersonal, Organizational, Community, and Public Policy
What are the levels of the Social-Ecological Model?
Dr. Olsen
Is it open notes?
Corona virus
Is is a new epidemic?
Researchers, epidemiologists, lobbyists, hospital administrators, occupational hygienists, etc.
What are some public health professions?
Access to health care services, cancer, diabetes, environmental health, tobacco use, injury and violence prevention...etc.
Topics of Healthy People 2020?
Learning by observing others is the focus of study
What is the focus of the Social Cognitive theory?
Live Well
Where most public health students do their internship hours?
An eradicated disease that was one of the worst outbreaks in history
What is smallpox?
Federal and state program that helps with medical costs for some people with limited income and resources
What is Medicaid?
French biologist and chemist who made enormous contributions to germ theory, to the prevention of food spoilage, and to the control of disease
Who is Louis Pasteur?
Suggest that a person's health behavior is determined by their intention to perform a behavior
What is the Theory of Reasoned Action/Planned Behavior?
Bob Martinez
Where is HSHP?
Agent, host, and environment
What is the epidemiologic triangle?
A procedure used to collect data that describes the needs and strengths of a specific group, community, or population
What is a needs assessment?