History of Health and Health Education/Promotion

One of the oldest documents related to health, it contains laws pertaining to health practices and physicians, including physician fees.

• Smith Papyri

• Code of Hammurabi

• Egyptian tablets

In Early Cultures, the Romans were known for which of the following?

• Building extensive aqueduct systems

• Developing extensive underground sewers

• Developing a system of private medical practice

• All of these are correct.

According to the textbook, the Bubonic Plague (Black Death) killed between 20 and 35 million people.

• True

• False

In London (1849), Dr. John Snow removed the Broad Street water pump handle, discovering the source of the ________ epidemic.

• Smallpox

• Cholera

• Typhoid

• Tuberculosis (TB)

By the 1950s in the United States, the leading causes of death were starting to shift from communicable (infectious) diseases to chronic (noncommunicable) diseases.

• True

• False

Which of the following are included in the 10 Great Public Health Achievements in the United States, 1900-1999? Select all correct answers.

• Vaccination

• Motor vehicle safety

• Safer and healthier foods

• Cancer is cured

• Safer workplaces

What was Hippocrates known for?

• Developed the theory of disease causation

• Taught that health was the result of balance

• The first epidemiologist and father of medicine

• All of these are correct.

The belief that disease is caused by the vapors coming from rotting waste was known as the miasmas theory.

• True

• False

From 1875-1900 was known as the _________ period of public health.

• viral

• parasitic

• miasmas

• bacteriological

Who proposed the germ theory of disease?

• John Snow

• Louis Pasteur

• Robert Koch

• Joseph Lister