Foundations of Public Health
This is defined as the science and art of preventing disease and promoting health.
What is public health?
One of the three core functions that involves collecting and analyzing health data.
A: What is assessment?
The study of disease distribution in populations.
A: What is epidemiology?
In public health, this is considered the “patient.”
A: What is the community?
The leading cause of death in the U.S.
A: What is heart disease?
The main mission of public health includes promoting health and preventing these three things.
A: What are disease, injury, and disability?
This core function focuses on developing policies using scientific knowledge.
A: What is policy?
This measure compares risk between exposed and non-exposed groups.
A: What is relative risk?
This justice model supports equal access to healthcare.
A: What is social justice?
This vitamin deficiency causes scurvy.
A: What is Vitamin C deficiency?
Before 1850, public health efforts mainly focused on this.
A: What is battling epidemics?
This core function ensures services are provided to those in need.
A: What is assurance?
A study comparing people with a disease to those without it.
A: What is a case-control study?
This principle distributes healthcare based on ability to pay.
A: What is market justice?
These factors include income, education, and housing.
A: What are social determinants of health?
This historical figure linked cholera to contaminated water.
A: Who is John Snow?
This essential service includes enforcing laws to protect health.
A: What is enforcing laws and regulations?
This type of bias occurs when a sample is not representative.
A: What is selection bias?
This report outlines ethical principles like respect and justice in research.
A: What is the Belmont Report?
This deficiency leads to goiter.
A: What is iodine deficiency?
After 1999, public health shifted toward this major focus.
A: What is preparing for and responding to community health threats?
This essential service involves connecting people to healthcare when unavailable.
A: What is linking people to needed health services?
The requirement that a cause must come before an effect is called this.
A: What is temporality?
This code established ethical standards for human experimentation after WWII.
A: What is the Nuremberg Code?
These are the five categories influencing health outcomes (e.g., genetics, behavior).
A: What are determinants of health?