Community Health

1. What is the etymology of the word ‘health’?

2. How is health defined?

3. Why is health referred to as a ‘dynamic’ state?

4. Define public health.

5. Define population health.

6. Define community health.

7. Define global health.

8. List and explain the four (4) main factors that affect the health of a community. Hint: One is physical factors.

9. What is ‘John Snow’ to public health?

10. Explain ‘social engineering’ and the creation of Medicare and Medicaid.

11. Differentiate between Medicare and Medicaid.

12. Explain health disparities.

13. Explain Healthy People 2020.

14. What is ‘WHO’, its purpose and mission?

15. What is NIH? List three (3) units of NIH that are important to you and the reason for the importance.

16. List the ten (10) core functions of public health.

17. What is the annual spending on health care in the U.S.A.?

18. What are ‘notifiable diseases’? List four (4)such diseases.

19. What are the 5 major causes of mortality in the U.S.A.?

20. Why is infant mortality data an important indicator of a nation’s health status?

21. Draw/show the ‘Chain of Infection’.

22. Distinguish between ‘acute’ and ‘chronic’ disease.

23. What is the difference between a communicable agent and a pathogenic agent?

24. List 4 vectorborne diseases and 4 nonvectorborne diseases.

Vectorborne Diseases

Nonvectorborne Diseases

25. Explain this graph.

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