Public Health
A definition of public health
What is what we, as a society do together, collectively to assure conditions for people to be healthy.
The defintion of advocacy
What is increasing the power of people and groups and making institutions more responsive to human needs
The number 1 cause of death in the world?
What are cardiovascular diseases?
The definition of epi
What is the study of distribution and determinants of health in populations, and the application of knowledge to prevent and control disease
The definiton of environmental health
What is the study of those factors in the environment that affect human health?
An outstanding public health achievement from 1900-1999. (name three)
What are:
Vaccinations
Motor-vehicle safety
Safer workplaces
Safer foods
Healthier mothers and babies
Family planning
Safer drinking water
Tabacco recognition
The three pillars of public health policy
What is organizing, communication, and direct advocacy?
The main cause of death for children between 5 and 14?
What are road accidents?
1. Descriptive: the description of disease patterns
2. Analytic: Search for causes of disease
The birthplace of methane
What are cows
What are wealthier women live longer than their parents while poor women have a shorter life expectancy compared to the past.
Definition of stakeholders
Who are people with some kind of stake (strong self-interest) in what happens
The link between Ice cream sales and drownings
What is association not causation
Definitions of Association and Causation
What is:
A: A statistical relationship between two variables
C: The exposure produces the effect
The examples of factors of a healthy environment. (Name 3/4 or 4/4)
What are:
Chemical
Biological
Physical
Social
Examples of the social determinants of health. (four)
Education, healthcare, neighborhood, and access to healthy food
Defintion of targets (double for secondary targets)
Who are the people (often person) who have the ability to make the desired change.
(Who are the people who have the ability to influence the target)
The definition of descriptive statistics
What is summarizing a sample selected from a population?
Two types of source population
What are: Fixed and Dynamic
Actions to combat climate change.
What are adaptation and mitigation?
Definition of the socio-ecological model
What is a model that conceptualizes health broadly and focuses on multiple factors that might affect health?
Framing chuck e cheese to parents vs framing it to children
Parents: let your kids run free, take a break, put your feet up
kids: hang with your friends, play games etc
The definition of inferential statistics
What is making inferences about population parameters based on sample statistics?
One step of the answering public health questions diagram
1. Define the population of interest
2. Conceptualize/measure exposure and outcome
3. Sample the source population of interest
4. Estimate measures of association
5. Evaluate whether the association may be causal
6. Assess multifactorial causation
7. Assess generalizability of study results
The carbon cycle
What is the biogeochemical cycle by which carbon is exchanged among the biosphere, pedosphere, geosphere, hydrosphere, and atmosphere of the Earth.