Why has Australia experienced a decline in infectious diseases over the past 100 years?

A high standard of living, treatment and control measures

Which of the following reforms best helped to prevent water-borne disease?

Water pollution controls, and waste and sewage disposal

New public health signified a change from a:

Behavioural to a social health paradigm

The term morbidity is best defined as:

The rate of incidence of disease or illness

What spurred public health initiatives and scientific investigation of HIV/AIDS?

The rise in prevalence and inevitable mortality of infection

Removed a water pump handle preventing the spread of Cholera

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1
Essential public health services include:
Diagnosis of health problems
Monitoring health status
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Education
2
Why has Australia experienced a decline in infectious diseases over the past 100 years?
Infected cattle have been immunised
Australia is isolated from the rest of the world
Australians have access to universal health care
A high standard of living, treatment and control measures
3
Which of the following reforms best helped to prevent water-borne disease?
The Factories Act, water pollution controls and bacteriology
Water pollution controls, and waste and sewage disposal
Bacteriology, epidemiology and environmental controls
Waste disposal, reporting mechanisms and quarantine
4
New public health signified a change from a:
Behavioural to a technological paradigm
Technological to a social health paradigm
Behavioural to a social health paradigm
Social health to a biomedical paradigm
5
The term morbidity is best defined as:
The rate of incidence of death in a specific time period
The rate of incidence of disease or illness
The number of deaths in a defined population
The number of people with a specific illness in a given time
6
What spurred public health initiatives and scientific investigation of HIV/AIDS?
Financial costs to the healthcare sector were unsustainable
Rates in conflict zones disrupted infrastructure and systems
The rise in prevalence and inevitable mortality of infection
Becoming more accepting of diseases suffered by gay people
7
Rapid urbanisation in the 19th century had which of the following effects:
Contaminated water supplies
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Overcrowding of housing
Poor sanitation provision
8
John Snow
Removed a water pump handle preventing the spread of Cholera
Discovered miasma theory
Identified the causative agent of Tuberculosis
Demonstrated a link between living conditions and disease
9
In which year was the World Health Organization (WHO) founded?
1945
1914
1925
1948
10
In 1918, influenza killed more Europeans than had perished in World War 1
True
False

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