Essential Services
How many essential services are in public health?
10
Who is known as the "father of epidemiology?"
John Snow
What is health equity?
Condition where everyone has the ability to reach their highest level of health
Who is the patient of interest in clinical medicine vs. public health?
Clinical medicine: individual
Public health: community
How many core functions are there?
3
What is the purpose of these services?
protect and promote health of the community, rather than just the individual
Who is known as the father of vital statistics?
John Gruant
What is the primary strategy used in public health?
Prevention
Wearing a seatbelt is what type of prevention?
Primary
Name the core functions of public health
Assessment, policy development, assurance
The 10 essential services are organized into 3 sections. What are these sections called?
The core functions
Who is in the leadership of the WHO?
Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus
What is the tragedy of commons?
One person is taking the shared resource all to themselves
What type of prevention is getting a mammogram?
Secondary
Which core function does the “assess and monitor population health” fall into?
Assessment
The essential services promote policies, systems, and overall community conditions to achieve what? (Hint: It's the word that's in the center of the wheel of essential servies)
Equity
Who was a key figure in Women’s health and Health education?
Nancy Miriam Hawley
What is the difference between viewing health in social vs market justice?
Social: health is a social benefit/resource
Market: health is an economic good
What are the major sciences that contribute to public health?
Epidemiology, Biostatistics, Biomedical sciences (biology, chemistry, etc), Environmental Health Science, Social & Behavioral science (sociology, psychology, etc.), Health Policy & Management
Which core function does building a skilled and diverse workforce fall into?
Assurance
Assess and monitor population health
When was the cholera outbreak that John Snow was accredited with tracking using the dot mapping technique?
1854
Give an example of a social determinant that would prevent someone from accessing healthy foods
Living in a food desert
What is the epidemiological triad and what are it's components?
Agent, host, environment. It's a framework used to explain how infectious diseases develop and spread
What is an example of an implementation measure that would fall under policy development? (A real world example, there are many)
Requiring seatbelts in cars, smoking restriction laws, vaccination requirements, etc.