Exam 32: Exploring Public Health: Definitions, Leaders, and Controversies

For most disease, prevalence rates change rapidly and are of great use for epidemiologic studies.

whats the appropriate description of the following terms? -Has vastly improved the accessibility of public health information to public health workers and the general public

whats the appropriate occupation of the exposure? -Caused lung and lymphatic cancer in copper smelters

whats the appropriate contribution of the philanthropic foundation? -Health and public policy.

whats the appropriate year of the event? -Rachel Carson's best-selling book Silent Spring was published which was a wake-up call to the American public warning that chemicals in the environment cause harm.

After Iraq was found not to have weapons of mass destruction after all, the concern about which of the following died down?

For some conditions such as AIDS or suicide, the cause of death may be misstated deliberately by the local official because of social stigma.

whats the appropriate occupation of the exposure? -Caused nerve damage in shoemakers

whats the appropriate description of the causes of death? -Encompasses the top three killers of 1900

Which of the following comprises the greatest portion of municipal solid wastes?

whats the appropriate description of the causes of death? -Ranks fifth as an actual cause of death which is evidence of successes in environmental health

whats the appropriate description of the following? -Is closely linked to socioeconomic status and prevention of pregnancy in teenagers is a high priority for public health

whats the appropriate year of the event? -Contamination of New York's Hudson River with PCBs was traced to two General Electric Company capacitor plants that had been discharging large volumes of PCBs into the river for more than 25 years.

Because which of the following have only recently been recognized to cause cancer in humans, the public health response to these agents is evolving?

whats the appropriate year of the event? -A leak at a cooking oil factory contaminated a batch of the rice oil with heat exchanger fluids containing PCBs and related chemicals known as the Yusho incident.

Even leaders in the field of public health have themselves struggled to understand the mission of public health, to explain what it is, why it is important, and what it should do.

whats the appropriate belief promoted by the AIDS prevention program targeted at gay men in San Francisco in the mid-1980s of the question? -"There is something I can do that will lessen the threat of infection."

_____________________ was an issue on which the Bush administration especially disagreed with many scientists.

Public health, unlike virtually all other important social efforts, is dependent on its ability to obtain the participation of other agencies to solve its problems.

The fact that the probable is not always what happens leads to the ______________________ that most improbable things are bound to happen occasionally.