Question

13. Explain Healthy People 2020.

14. What is ‘WHO’, its purpose and mission?

15. What is NIH? List three (3) units of NIH that are important to you and the reason for the importance.

16. List the ten (10) core functions of public health.

17. What is the annual spending on health care in the U.S.A.?

18. What are ‘notifiable diseases’? List four (4)such diseases.

19. What are the 5 major causes of mortality in the U.S.A.?

20. Why is infant mortality data an important indicator of a nation’s health status?

21. Draw/show the ‘Chain of Infection’.

22. Distinguish between ‘acute’ and ‘chronic’ disease.

23. What is the difference between a communicable agent and a pathogenic agent?

Answer 1

Ans) 3) Healthy People 2020 is the federal government's prevention agenda for building a healthier nation. It is a statement of national health objectives designed to identify the most significant preventable threats to health and to establish national goals to reduce these threats.

4) Purpose of WHO:

- WHO works worldwide to promote health, keep the world safe, and serve the vulnerable. It is to ensure that a billion more people have universal health coverage, to protect a billion more people from health emergencies, and provide a further billion people with better health and well-being.

Mission of WHO:

- Its aim is to reach people in all walks of life, especially those living in remote areas and give them the knowledge they need to protect and improve their health and environment.

5) NIH is the steward of medical and behavioral research for the Nation. Its mission is to seek fundamental knowledge about the nature and behavior of living systems and the application of that knowledge to enhance health, lengthen life, and reduce illness and disability.

- NIH improves health by promoting treatment and prevention, contributes to society by driving economic growth and productivity, and expands the biomedical knowledge base by funding cutting-edge research and cultivating the biomedical workforce.

6) 10 core functions of public health:

- Monitor health

- Diagnose and investigate

- Inform, Educate and Empower

- Mobilize Community patnership

- Develop policies

- Enforce laws

- Link to/provide care

- Assure competent workforce

- Evaluate

7) U.S. health care spending grew 4.6 percent in 2018, reaching $3.6 trillion or $11,172 per person. As a share of the nation's Gross Domestic Product, health spending accounted for 17.7 percent.