Public Health

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which best expresses the social justice view of public health?

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members of a community have collective responsibility for their common welfare

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which has a negative as well as positive consequence for public health?

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effect of banning pesticide use on the agricultural industry

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public health interventions are

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measures that interrupt the chain of causation that leads to an illness or injury

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the core fxns of pub health are?

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assessment, policy development, & assurance

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pub health measures that contribute most to people being healthier today than they were a century ago?

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sanitation, better nutrition, and occupational safety

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primary prevention refers to

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prevention of exposure to risk factors

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which of the following is not part of the chain of infection

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immunization

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which of the following is not eradicable

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rabies

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th total number of cases of a disease existing iin a defined population at a specific time is called?

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prevalence

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the most important predictor of health is:

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socioeconomic status

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which is not known to be at least preventable by practicing healthy behavior

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alzheimers

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the risk of which of the following is most significantly affected by behavioral factors?

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aids

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which of the following statements is true of regulation as a way of changing people's behavior

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laws requiring premarital screening for HIV have little effect in protecting women from getting infected

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which of the measures to limit freedom of adults in the name of public health has not been taken by the us govt of state govts

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laws against smoking cigarettes

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which measure could be considered primarily in an attempt to legislate morality?

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laws against homosexuality

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the rate of new cases of a disease in a defined pop over a defined period of time which measures the probablity that a healthy person will develop a certain disease in a define period of time

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incidence

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the framingham study to evaluate smoking, htn, high cholesterol, cardiovascular disease, lung cancer has been going on for how long?

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over 50 years

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the first ex of an epideriologic study (1853-4) was done by

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snow

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the leader of public health movt of early 1900s was

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winslow

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which of the following statements about infectious diseases is true?

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infectious diseases are caused by pathogens

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how many stages are there to syphilis

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three

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the primary mission of pub health is ____ & _____

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prevent disease & prolong life

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t/f syphilis is spread by a vector

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false

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t/f: rabies is almost always transmitted by a rabid animal bite

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t/f: typhoid fever is spread by the fecal oral route

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t/f: most infectious disease can be cured by antiobiotics

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f

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t/f: the study of the disribution & determintaes of disease frequency in human pops is called epidemiology

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t/f: studies show that smokers are 20 times more likely to die of lung cancer than non-smokers

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t/f: the primary mission of pub health is the prevent death & disability

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t/f: the primary leader pf the pub health movt in the early 1900's was charles winslow

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t/f:in 1964 the surgeon general's first authoritative statement regarding the health consequences of smoking resulted in many people giving up smoking

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t/f: unless a pathogen is involved public health would not be involved in a terroroist or bioterrorist activity

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t/f: hep b is a std

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t/f: pubic lice can affect the eyes

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t/f: syphilis lesions are painful

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t/f: hpv is found in 2/10 females between the ages of 15-26

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many chronic diseases are caused primarily by individual behaviors

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