4th QR L1-L4 HEALTH QUIZ

• Strategies used by public health professionals

  • Educational programs
  • Policy changes
  • Research works
• Public health professionals


  People trained and receive a master's or doctoral degree in areas like nutrition, community health education, maternal and child health, nursing, environmental health, biostatistics, and epidemiology
• Public health workers


  People whose work involves prevention of diseases in communities and groups, even if they don't have formal public health training
• Health care workers address issues on what they need to do to prepare for a career in health care
• Public health


  Involves the national, state, or local levels that fulfill legal responsibilities to promote and protect the health of people
• Responsibilities of public health administrators

  • Assisting the burden of the disease
  • Managing programs aimed for the prevention and control of health threats
  • Developing policies and practices to improve health
• Biostatisticians


  Develop and conduct researches to study patterns of diseases and their treatments, applying mathematics and statistics to compile, analyze, and report health-related information
• Where biostatisticians work


  • Government agencies
  • Health departments
  • Private industry
  • Research institutions
  • Pharmaceutical companies
  • Biomedical health care organizations
  • Other companies that introduce new medical products to market
• Environmental health specialists


  Protect people from hazards in the environment such as chemicals, fumes, dust, human wastes, industrial wastes, radioactive materials, and bacterial contaminants
• Environmental health specialists conduct research and work as inspectors for public agencies and industries
• Personal health care


  Provides protection and advantage beneficial to the person, with convenient access to a full range of primary care services and 24-hour support
• Personal care services


  • On-going supervision by a registered nurse
  • Continuous care coordination
  • Ongoing health and safety assessment
  • Assistance with bathing and dressing
  • Medication management
  • Meal planning and preparation
  • Light housekeeping and laundry services
  • Assistance with getting to appointments and social events
  • Companion services
  • Shopping and errand services
• Qualified caregivers

  • Home Health Aides
  • Certified Nursing Assistants
  • Sisters or Companions
• Objectives of the Maternal and Child Health Care Program


  • Enhance and build up healthy birth outcomes
  • Develop and guarantee comprehensive primary care for children ages birth to 21
  • Encourages healthy lifestyles among school youth ages 6 to 21 including children with special health care needs
  • Strengthen access to safe, healthy child care up to age 6, encompassing children with special care needs
  • Preconception, pregnancy testing, and planning
• Maternal and Child Care supports a broad array of programs that will enhance health care for children and their mothers, improve the availability and access to high quality of preventive and primary health care for children, and reproductive health care regardless of their ability to pay
• The Adolescent Health Program aspires to improve the health and well-being of adolescents and young adults with the provision of information and resources to families, youth organizations, and health centers
• The Child Health Program gives and allocates funds for community-based health care providers to offer broad protective health care to low income, uninsured children through home visits and clinic appointments
• Common Childhood-related Concerns


  • Childhood Lead Poisoning and Prevention Program
  • Early Hearing Detection and Interventions
  • Family Planning Program
  • Health Child Care
  • Newborn Screening Programs
  • Prenatal Services