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Volume 1, Chapter 6
Public Health
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| Epidemiology is: | A branch of medicine that deals with the incidence and prevalence of disease in large populations. |
| The three categories of public health laws are: | Illness & prevention, Police powers for public health agencies, and epidemiological tools. |
| The laws give public health officials the necessary legal tools to perform their jobs. | Illness & prevention laws |
| These laws allow public health entities to act in the general interest of the public, when necessary. | Police powers for public health agencies |
| These laws give public health agencies the power to use epidemiological tools to analyze legal issues related to public health practice and enforcement. | Epidemiological tools |
| A calculation made by subtracting the age at death from 65 is: | Years of productive life |
| A hazardous or potentially hazardous situation that puts people in danger of sustaining injury is called? | Injury risk |
| The ongoing systematic collection, analysis, and interpretation of injury data essential to the planning, implementation, and evaluation of public health practice is called: | Injury surveillance program |
| Occurs shortly after an injury, when he patient and observers remain acutely aware of what has happened and may be ore receptive to learning about how a similar injury or illness could be prevented in the future. | Teachable moments |
| EMS providers focus on keeping an injuring from occurring. This is called.... | Primary prevention |
| Medical care and rehabilitation activities that help to prevent further problems from occurring are referred to as: | Secondary prevention and tertiary prevention, respectively. |
| Roles for EMS in the public health arena include: | Health promotion, disease surveillance, disaster management, and injury prevention |
| Intentional injuries make up about ______ of all injury deaths. | One-third |
| under the guidelines of _______, employers and employees share responsibility for Standard Precautions. | OSHA |
| What has been found to be the leading cause of disability among EMS workers? | Back injuries |
| What is the most common type of preventable injury in people over 75 years of age? | Falls |
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