Public Health Fundamentals
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What are the three core service areas in public health?

  • Protection, promotion, and policy
  • Governance, advocacy, and capacity
  • Protection, prevention, and promotion (correct)
  • Surveillance, monitoring, and evaluation
  • What is the role of social cohesion and social capital in the social determinants of health framework?

  • They are intermediary determinants of health
  • They bridge the structural and intermediary determinants of health (correct)
  • They are not related to the determinants of health
  • They are structural determinants of health
  • What event led to the refusal of the Miasma theory?

  • The development of vaccines
  • The cholera outbreak in London in 1840s (correct)
  • The invention of microscopes
  • The discovery of microorganisms
  • Who was the leading scientist who proposed the germ theory?

    <p>Dr. John Snow</p> Signup and view all the answers

    What is the name of the theory that was widely accepted for centuries before being refused?

    <p>Miasma theory</p> Signup and view all the answers

    What was the significance of Dr. John mapping out where each of the patients had lived?

    <p>To determine the relationship between the patients' residences and the source of the outbreak</p> Signup and view all the answers

    What is the primary difference between RE and R0 in infectious disease epidemiology?

    <p>RE is the reproduction number in a fully susceptible population, while R0 is the reproduction number in a population with varying levels of immunity</p> Signup and view all the answers

    What is the term for the indirect protection from infectious disease that occurs when a large percentage of the population is immune?

    <p>Herd immunity</p> Signup and view all the answers

    What is the term for the time between getting infected and the appearance of symptoms?

    <p>Incubation period</p> Signup and view all the answers

    What is the term for the time between infection and the onset of infectiousness?

    <p>Latent period</p> Signup and view all the answers

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