Chapter 1: Public Health 18 Correctly Answered Questions Latest Update

What does the epidemiologic transition model say about the relationship between health and country development? {Ans: less communicable disease in developed countries. -communicable disease are more prominent in less devolved countries . - Epidemiological transition accounts for the replacement of infectious diseases by chronic diseases over time due to expanded public health and sanitation.}What is the population approach to understanding health? {Ans: *Evidence based approach* to problem solve that considers a range of possible interventions. EX: *health care, traditional PH & social interventions*}How has public health improved our lives since its development as a field? {Ans: Prolonging life, protection/promotion of health, new technology, view of PH is a larger issue than just viewed indidually}How do you read a population pyramid and what can it tell us about the health of populations? {Ans: Conveys the complex social narrative of a population through its shape. - *expansive* (young and growing )High birth rate, high death rate = rapidly growing population - *stationary* (little or no population growth). Slowing birth rate, lower death rate - *Contracting* (elderly and shrinking) Low birth rate, low death rate}Contributory causes {Ans: * Clinically useful concept of causation* 1) Association of cause &