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The document discusses a course on principles and applications of public health. It includes two parts, with multiple choice and long answer questions covering topics like the definition of public health, its key areas and functions, determinants of demography, definitions of epidemiology and prevention, and concepts like rates, ratios, and statistical measures used to evaluate screening tests.

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Principle of Puplic Health First Assignment

The document discusses a course on principles and applications of public health. It includes two parts, with multiple choice and long answer questions covering topics like the definition of public health, its key areas and functions, determinants of demography, definitions of epidemiology and prevention, and concepts like rates, ratios, and statistical measures used to evaluate screening tests.

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COURSE TITLE: PRINCIPLE AND APPLICATION OF PUPLIC HEALTH

PART I: CHOOSE THE BEST ANSWER AND CIRCE IT (15 MARKS)

1. What is the best definition of public health?


a. Public health is the science of preventing disease and occurrence of disease
b. Public Health is the science of promoting health, preventing disease and premature death of a
population by systematic efforts of society, communities or individuals, usually in the presence
of limited financial resources.
c. Public health is synonym with community medicine, and is the science of preventing and
promoting health.
2. Which of the following includes covers three key areas public health covers?
a. Health protection
b. Health improvement
c. Health-care services
d. All of the above.
3. What is the best definition demography?
a. Is the scientific study of the size, the structure (composition) and the distribution of human
populations
b. It is a science analyzing the incidence, distribution, determinants and control of diseases/health
problems as well as factors promoting health
c. Is the designed to solve identified local and national health problems and priorities?
4. What is the best definition of epidemiology?
a. It is a science analyzing the incidence, distribution, determinants and control of diseases/health
problems as well as factors promoting health.
b. Is the science of promoting health, preventing disease and premature death of a population by
systematic efforts of society, communities or individuals, usually in the presence of limited
financial resources?
c. Is the designed to solve identified local and national health problems and priorities?
5. What are the main public health functions?
a. The assessment and monitoring health of communities and populations at risk to identify health
problems and priorities.
b. The formulation of public policies designed to solve identified local and national health
problems and priorities.
c. To assure that all populations have access to appropriate and cost-effective care, including
health promotion and disease prevention services.
d. All of the above.
6. All of the following is determinants of demography EXCEPT?
a. Fertility (births)
b. Death
c. Migration
d. Marriage, Aging, Health.
e. Running
7. What is the best definition of primary prevention?
a. Primary prevention is the promotion of health at both individual and community levels
by facilitating health-enhancing behaviors, preventing the onset of risk behaviors, and
diminishing exposure to environmental hazard. It is efforts decrease incidence.
b. Is the screening for risk factors and early detection of asymptomatic or mild disease,
permitting timely and effective intervention and curative treatment? It decreases
disease prevalence.
c. Is the reduction of long-term impairments and disabilities and prevention of repeated
episodes of clinical illness. The goal are to prevent recurrence and to slow progression
8. What is the difference of rate and ratio?
9. -------- is the is number of people who need to receive treatment for one successful
outcome (Lower for higher risk conditions)?
a. Number needed to treat
b. Odds ratio
c. Attributable risk
d. Estimated risk
e. Risk ratio
10. A study that Analyze association between risk and disease while minimizing confounding
factors, called what?
a. Descriptive study
b. Analytic study
c. Interventional study.
d. Co-founding factor.
11. What is the Probability that the results are due to chance is called?
a. P-value
b. Confidence interval
c. Odds ratio
d. Incidence.
PART II: LONG ANSWER QUESTION: YOU ARE ASKED TO ANSWER THE
FOLLOWING QUESTIONS ONLY (5 MARKS)
1.

a. What is the false positive test results?


b. What is the false negative test results?
c. What is the true positive test results?
d. What is the true negative test results?
e. What is the sensitivity of the screening test?
f. What is the specificity of the screening test?
g. What is the positive predictive value of the screening test?
h. What is the accuracy of the screening test?

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