NURS120 - Exam 1 Review

In the early days of public health, two of the most basic survival concerns are:

This was the predecessor of the United States Public Health Service

Our health is produced throughout the sequential phases of our life refers to which perspective

The eco-social perspective states health is produced through a variety of levels including: (select all)

Core principles of public health include: (Select all that apply)

In the limit of preventable and amenable to public health interventions, everyone should have the same health, describes

Defined by the CDC, public health should promote and protect the health of:

In the individual, smoking is a substance use behavior that:

In 2016 only a single infectious disease appeared in the top 10 of leading cause of death

The circumstances which people are born, live, work and age, and those systems dealing with illness can be described as

Clinical medicine aims to restore patients to their earlier "normal" health conditions

Widespread adoption of cigarette smoking as a habit in the 20th century was related to

This involves exposure in a series of domino-like sequence of risk that escalates toward fatal outcome

Dramatic gains in life expectancy are related to economic growth, identification of infectious diseases and

Public health resides in which branch of the government

A description of health inequity would be:

Childbirth classes fall into which Eco-social and Life course perspective categories?

Decline in deaths from CHD and Stroke from the 1960s to today are related to: (select all)

Reduced prevalence of disease falls under what type of prevention strategy?

Approaches to tertiary prevention include: (Select all that apply)

Critical periods occur in the life span when exposures have greater impact than others

What required more than one individual that share one or more common characteristics that can be in a particular place?

One of the greatest achievements of the 20th century is:

According to the WHO, health is defined as:

Immunization, safe water and improved nutritional status of the population fall under which prevention strategy