General Public Health
The APHA indicates that public health involves promoting and protecting the health of people and the communities where they live, learn, work, and these three other conditions.
What are play, worship, and age?
Direct and indirect, as well as droplet, airborne, vectorborne, foodborne, and fecal-oral are all examples of this.
What are means (or modes) of transmission of disease?
This type of prevention seeks to minimize disability or other long-term negative health impacts associated with the occurrence of disease or another health condition.
What is tertiary prevention?
This level of measure uses categories with an inherent order.
What is ordinal level of measure?
While the Census is conducted every year, this survey utilizes the census' long-form on a sample of 3 million households annually.
What is the American Community Survey?
These are the three core functions of public health.
What are assessment, policy development, and assurance?
This famous epidemiologist is known for his study of the Cholera epidemic in the Golden Square of London and throughout the city of London and is known as the Father of Epidemiology.
Who is John Snow?
Health professionals and public health agencies are required to report information on these for prevention and control of diseases. Information collected with these reports include lab test results, exposures, behaviors, and symptoms.
What are notifiable or reportable diseases?
This statistic is calculated by the number of existing/known cases during a given time period over the number of people at risk during the same time period.
What is prevalence rate?
This survey samples 15 counties each year and conducts in-home interviews as well as interviews, exams, and tests in mobile labs. It looks at a variety of diseases, medical conditions, and health indicators such as anemia, cardiovascular disease, and diabetes.
What is the NHANES (National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey)?
Epidemiology, Biostatistics, and Environmental Health Science are 3 of the 6 disciplines of public health. These are the other 3.
What are Biomedical Sciences, Social & Behavioral Sciences, and Health Policy and Management?
In the case of an outbreak, this is a way to describe the risk of getting a disease as a function of participation in a specific activity or connection to a specific exposure. It is determined by the number of people who participated in an activity and are sick over the total number of people who participated in the activity.
What is Attack Rate?
This way of linking parts of the life of a disease from reservoir to host describes the pattern by which infectious diseases are transmitted. It also helps public health practitioners to identify areas for possible intervention to decrease the occurrence of disease.
What is the Chain of Causation or Chain of Infection?
This is a third variable that can confuse the results found between the independent and dependent variables and is not in the causal pathway.
What is a confounding variable?
This telephone survey is conducted at the state level to obtain information on health-related behavior. It started in 1984.
What is the BRFSS (Behavioral Risk Factor Surveillance System)?
Germ theory, establishment of health departments and laboratories, and pasteurization are examples of public health advances which occurred during this century.
What is the 19th century (1800s)?
Many mothers died from illness during or right after giving birth and their infants often followed suit soon after. This person discovered that hand washing was an effective way to decrease this observed mortality.
Who is Ignaz Semmelweis?
This type of prevention seeks to minimize the severity of an illness through methods such as earlier detection.
What is secondary prevention?
This level of measure uses numbers with a known distance between each value and a true zero.
What is ratio level of measure?
This regional survey is primarily concerned with healthcare access and health status and utilizes the "last birthday method" to select the household interviewee.
What is the SEPA Household Health Survey?
Industrialization along with poor sanitation and crowded living conditions created significant problems with preventing this general public health concern during the 19th century.
What are infectious diseases?
This individual established four criteria (postulates) that must be met to identify the causative agent of a particular disease.
Who is Robert Koch?
Having a vaccine and lacking this characteristic makes a disease, such as smallpox, a particularly good candidate for eradication.
What is a non-human reservoir?
Risk is the product of these two variables.
What are severity and probability?
This national survey addresses major health topics such as physical and mental health status, chronic conditions, health related behaviors, and health insurance coverage. It involves personal household interviews and has a household and family components as well as Sample Adult and Sample Child components.
What is the NHIS (National Health Interview Survey)?