1. What is public health and what is its history? What do the concepts of historical, current, and emerging health concerns mean as part of public health?
2.What do morbidity and mortality mean in public health? How do we use these to determine contributory causes of illness, injury, and death?
3.What are the six basic types of public health data and what are some advantages and disadvantages of each?
4.How do the social and behavioral sciences relate to public health?
5.What are the key legal principles that form the basis for public health law?
6.What is a non-communicable disease? Choose one and discuss the risk factors and at least one intervention to modify, reduce, or eliminate risk factors.
7.What is screening and what role does it play in communicable disease prevention?
8.What are the components of an environmental risk assessment? Choose an environmental risk (i.e. pesticides or lead) and apply this to an assessment.
9.Discuss three different public health professionals. What are their roles, where might they work, what is their education and credentialing?
10.Find two in-patient care facilities and two out-patient care facilities in your hometown. What do they do? Who do they serve? Please include a link or address so I may look into the selected facilities.
11.What are three types of insurance available in the US? Who has access to each? (i.e. what are the requirements to utilize or access each type you selected).
12.List the ten essential services of public health (yes, just list).
13.What is the role of public health in emergency preparedness for both man-made and natural disasters?
14.Examine the eight The Millennium Development Goals for 2015. Please list them and for each goal, one objective that has been set to meet that goal (be sure to include the who/what/when/ and where.