Personal and Commuinity Health – Flashcards
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Public health measures that contribute mos to people beiong healthier today they were a century ago are
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Sanitation, better nutrition, and occupational safety
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The core functoins of public health are
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Assessment, policy development, and assurance
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Primary preventtion refers to
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Disability limitation
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Public health interventions are
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Measures that interupt the chain of causation that leads to an illness or injury
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Mammograms to detect breast cancer are an example of
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Primary Prevention
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Seat belt laws are an example of
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Secondary Prevention
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Epidemiology is part of what function of public health
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Assurance
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Enviormental haelth does not include
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Treatment of lung cancer
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Which of the following aspects of the medical system are anot considered part of
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Risk factors
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Which of the following statements is not true about the differences and similarities between public healthand medical care
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In public health, their is no way of diagnosing problems
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Which of the following statements best expresses the social justice view of public health
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The government should provide everyone with an equal income
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The early history of U.S. public health was closely tie to social reform movements
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Communicable disease control
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Which of the following statements best expresses the market justice view
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Every adult individual is responsible for his or her own lot in life
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The lesson of the "Tragedy of the commons" for public health is that
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Under some circumstances, individuals in a community ma profit by agreeing as a group to limit each person;s freedom to act
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Which of hte following measures is most likely to have a negative as well as positive results for public health
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Effect of banning pesticide use on the agriculture industry
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Which of the following measures to limit the freedom of adults i the name of public health has not been taken by the U.S. or state governments
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Laws against somking cigaretts
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Which of the following measures could be considred primarily an attempt to legislate morality
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Laws against homoseuality
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Which of the following statements is true
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Costs of public health measures are easier to calcualte than the benefits
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Restricitng individual freedoms for public health purposes is unconstitutional
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False
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Which of the following justifications for limiting people's freedom is likely to be the most controversial
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To prevent someone from harming himself
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Which of the following statements is generally consistent with good public health policy
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Laws against selling cocaine are a generally acceptable limit on invidual freedom
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The level of government that according to the constituion has the primary resposiblity for the health of the population
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State
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Which of the following statements is true
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The federal government sometimes uses the interstate commerce provision of the constitution to protect the health of the populaiton
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The U.S. constitution specificall authorizes the federal government to do which of the following activitites relevant to public health
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Tax and Spend
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Which of the following is not true of epidemiology
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It is primarily an experimetal science
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Joh snow is called the father of modern edpidemiology because
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He was the first to use epidemiology by recognixing a natural experiement was occuring
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Which of the following is not required by law to thte country or state health department when they encounter a notifiable disease
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Patient
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The main purpose of epidemiologic surveillance is
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To recognize when an outbreak is occuring so that control measures may be instituted
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From an epidemiologic perspective, which of the following is not true of chronic diseases
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THey are most likely to be fatal than infectious diseases
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Routine data collected by the british government anabled Snow to recognize the cause of cholera
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True
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Which of the following questions is not necessarily part of an epidemiologic investigation
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Was this a bioterrorist attack
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The Framingham Heart study identified all of the following as risk factors for heart disease except
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Excersise
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Which of the following statements is not true of the Framingham Heart Study
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It found that it is normanl and healthy for blood pressure to rise with age
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Which of the followinf statements was not a finding of the british doctors study
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Deaths form lung cancer were higher in urban areas that rural areas
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What term correctly fills in the blank in the following sentence: Smoking is a
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Determiant
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Which of the following is part the "who" question of disease disturbution
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Age, Sex,Race
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An epidemic curve illustrates which of the following question sof disease distrubuting
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"When"
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Which of the following is not true of cohort studies
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The usually use a placebo
