Use of social policy interventions, use of traditional public health focused on populations, and the use of the healthcare delivery system focused on individuals
What are approaches included in population health?
100
True or False: The incidence rates and mortality rate for a disease are similar if most people who develop the disease will die from it.
What is true?
100
Data collected on births, deaths, and fetal deaths after 20 weeks gestation
What are vital statistics?
100
The practice of cooking with a high amount of salt is associated with increased blood pressure and strokes. This is an example of what type of influence on health?
What is Cultural?
100
Life expectancy is more adversely affected by this than by a person's income.
What is educational achievement?
200
They reflect underlying forces that are at work in the subsequent development of disease
What are determinants of health?
200
May be accomplished by preventing exposure through creation of barriers, by increasing resistance to the condition, and by removing the presence of the cause is true of this type of prevention
What is primary?
200
The objectivity of the organization that produces the web site, recent updating of the web site, presence of references for the data or conclusions presented on the web site and the availability of information on the source of funding for the web site
What is/are features of a high quality web site?
200
Education, family income, and professional job status
What is socioeconomic status?
200
The most difficult behaviors to change, such as overeating and smoking, are those that have what kind of component?
What is Physiological?
300
Populations that are usually the focus of public health initiatives
What are vulnerable populations?
300
To evaluate the effectiveness of health interventions in practice
What is the main purpose of RE-AIM?
300
Generating hypotheses, providing insight into how/why people come to particular conclusions, and helping assess possible barriers to successful implementation of an intervention
What are uses of qualitative data in public health?
300
True or False: How an individual copes with stress is a factor when considering the individual's relationship to his/her social system
What is true?
300
Which of the "4 Ps" of social marketing is used when determining the specific group that needs to be targeted and how to reach them
What is Place?
400
Those with blood sugar levels that satisfy the criteria for diabetes are aggressively treated is a public health strategy for reducing what type of risk factors?
What is reducing the high risk?
400
A researcher wants to find out whether the rate of asthma is higher among groups of people who have been exposed to air pollution. Which kind of study should she do?
What is population comparison (Ecological study)?
400
The collection, compilation, and presentation of health information
What is health communication?
400
Pre-contemplation, Contemplation, Preparation, Action, and Maintenance
What is Stages of Behavioral Change?
400
Introduction of smallpox vaccination is credited to whom
Who is Jenner?
500
The risk of HIV transmission is increased in central cities where the chance that an individual is HIV+ is higher than in suburban & rural areas is this type of determinant.
What is Geography?
500
Imagine that a study finds that children who are read to before bed each night have fewer cavities than those who are not read to at all. What is the confounding variable in this study?
What is reading?
500
On a hiking trip, Margo fears an attack by a wild animal more than she fears other, more likely dangers. This is an example of the...
What is dread effect?
500
According to the Health Belief Model, someone who believes in their ability to make a behavioral change or take action within a situation would be exemplifying
What is self-efficacy?
500
The Report on the Sanitary Commission of Massachusetts -- perhaps the most outstanding treatise in the history of American public health -- was written by