Intro & History of Public Health

Early explanations of the cause of disease focused on

• superstition, myths, and religion

• superstition

• myths

• religion

Which of the following was the major cause of death for the hunter-gatherers?

• heart disease

• cancer

• homicide

• starvation

The agricultural revolution experienced mostly which type of health problem?

• disease transmission from food and animals

• cancer

• heart disease

• farm accidents

The Hippocratic Corpus believed that disease was caused by . .

• imbalance of body fluids and environment

• evil spirits

• imbalance in the environment-diet and behavior

• imbalance of body fluids, leading to bloodletting

Lack of knowledge about disease lead to the spread of the Black Plague.

• True

• False

What is the practice of separating people that may be sick or infected from the healthy?

• triage

• bloodletting

• vetting

• quarantine

300 years prior to germ theory of disease, Fracastoro theorized disease spread through

• evil spirits

• vapors

• direct contact

• seeds

Who discovered the microscope

• Anton van Leewenhouk

• Girolamo Fracastro

• John Graunt

• Robert Koch

Typhus or "jail fever" was prevented primarily through

• vaccinations

• antibiotics

• quarantine

• good hygiene and sanitation

Scurvy is due to a deadly deficiency in of which vitamin?

• C

• Calcium

• A

• D