Chapter 1
Public health focuses on both vulnerable populations and the entire population (True or False)
True
The phase of the P.E.R.I.E. approach that addresses the burden of disease, course of disease, and distribution of disease
What is the Problem?
Which of the following is an important feature of a high quality Internet source?
The timeliness of information presented
The presence of references for the data
The inclusion of authors’ names & credentials
All of the above
D. All of the above
A social determinant that includes education, income, and occupational status
What is socio-economic status?
The philosophy toward the role of government that views health care as an economic good and an individual responsibility
What is market justice?
The population health approach that focuses on those with the highest probability of developing disease and aims to bring their risk close to the levels experienced by the rest of the population
What is the high-risk approach?
Quantitative studies are considered superior to qualitative studies (True or False)
False
A quantitative source of public health data that collects information on births, deaths, marriage, divorce, etc.
What is “Vital Statistics”?
A model with an underlying assumption that people go through a set of incremental stages when changing behavior rather than making significant changes all at once.
What is the Stages of Change Model or the Transtheoretical Model?
Implies that health implications should be considered in making all public policies
What is “Health in all Policies”?
Public health as a defined field dates back to the 21st century.
False
The phase of the P.E.R.I.E. approach that summarizes evidence about which interventions work to improve health outcomes and indicate whether action should be taken
What are Recommendations?
A source of public health data that involves administering a questionnaire to representative samples of a population. Examples include the Behavioral Risk Factor Surveillance System
What are surveys?
One of the 10 key categories of social determinants of health
What is social status, social support or alienation, food, housing, education, work, stress, transportation, place, or access to health services?
A type of law created by the courts when they apply constitutional, legislative, or administrative law to settle specific cases
What is judicial law?
Term for the “causes of the causes” or underlying factors that ultimately bring about diseases
What are determinants?
The evidence suggests that infants should be positioned to sleep on their backs to reduce the incidence of Sudden Infant Death Syndrome. Which phase of the PERIE approach is this?
What is a recommendation?
The decision-making approach in which the clinician serves as a source of information for patients but patients are directly involved in the implementation of care and in decision-making
What is shared decision-making?
A construct of the Health Belief Model that describes an individual’s belief in his/her ability to take action
What is Self-efficacy
Part of the Constitution that is used to justify federal involvement in public health
What is the Interstate Commerce Clause?
The broader concept of public health that includes healthcare systems + traditional public health+ social policy =
What is population health?
This level of intervention occurs prior to the disease or condition
What is primary intervention?
The decision-making approach in which the clinician conveys recommendations to the patient and the patient decides whether to accept or reject the recommendation
What is informed consent?
Public health is an application of the social sciences (True or False)
True
The United States has established a right to health care under this specific circumstance
What is emergency care?