Basics
What term refers to the number of new cases of a disease in a population during a given time?
What is Incidence?
Which Canadian province has the lowest smoking rate?
What is British Columbia?
Which core function of public health involves monitoring disease trends, analyzing data, and detecting outbreaks?
What is Surveillance?
Which organization was founded in 1948 and now coordinates international health responses?
What is The World Health Organization, WHO?
Which Canadian organization accredits all residency training programs, including Public Health & Preventive Medicine?
The Royal College of Physicians and Surgeons of Canada
What type of cancer is primarily prevented through HPV vaccination programs?
Nova Scotia has one of the highest rates of which chronic disease in Canada?
What is Diabetes?
Which major Canadian public health role is typically held by a PHPM-trained physician?
Chief Public Health Officer of Canada
BONUS:currently Dr. Theresa Tam
Which mosquito-borne virus caused a major outbreak in the Americas in 2015–2016 and was linked to birth defects?
What is Zika virus?
Public Health & Preventive Medicine residency in Canada typically lasts how many years?
5 total (2 years of core clinical training + 3 years of public health & preventive medicine, including an MPH)
Which type of prevention focuses on screening and early detection — primary, secondary, or tertiary?
What is Secondary Prevention?
bonus: examples? (Pap smears and mammograms)
The first Chief Public Health Officer of Canada, appointed in 2004, was who?
Who is Dr. David Butler-Jones?
Public Health & Preventive Medicine physicians often use the three levels of prevention framework. What are they?
What is Primary, Secondary, Tertiary prevention?
The 1854 cholera outbreak in London was traced to a contaminated water pump by which physician, considered a founder of epidemiology?
Which Canadian province has the largest number of residency training positions in Public Health & Preventive Medicine?
What is Ontario?
What is the single most cost-effective public health intervention in history?
What is clean water/sanitation?
**Vaccines are a close second**
Which Canadian province was the first to introduce a public health care insurance plan in 1947?
Along with health promotion and disease prevention, Public Health & Preventive Medicine specialists often collaborate with which non-medical sectors to address social determinants of health?
What is Education, housing, environment, transportation, employment, and social services?
What was the first disease ever eradicated globally through vaccination in 1980?
What is Smallpox?
Residents in Public Health & Preventive Medicine often work with local units of what type of health organization?
Public health departments / regional health authorities
What is the most common measure used to compare the overall health status of different countries?
What is Life expectancy at birth?
Which Atlantic Canadian city experienced a major water contamination outbreak in 1993 that highlighted the importance of safe drinking water?
What is Sydney, Nova Scotia?
In Canada, Public Health & Preventive Medicine physicians are uniquely trained to bridge medicine and which specialized field that focuses on populations, data, and social determinants of health?
What is Epidemiology?
Which Canadian province was the first to implement a smoking ban in all indoor public spaces and workplaces in 2006?
Ontario
Which Canadian university established the first Public Health & Preventive Medicine residency program?
University of Toronto