Public Health Exam Assignment: Implications of the Findings

1. Why is public health decision-making so tough?
2. What program-planning frameworks are suggested by the reading to provide structure and organization for the planning process?
3. Research shows that evaluability (or the ability of consumers to evaluate the program) is important because even very important information may not be used unless it can be translated into an affective frame of reference, giving the information meaning as being something desirable or undesirable. What does this mean for public health interventions?
4. This is a multi-part question. A) What are the benefits of children walking and bicycling to school? And b) What are the predictors of children walking and bicycling to school (name 3)?
5. What are three reasons (explain each one) that social conditions are being cited as the fundamental cause of disease?
6. Discuss the occupational HIV transmission article. Include a) why this is important, and b) what are the public health implications of the findings?
7. This is a multi-part question. A) Describe “cultural mapping” in relationship to public health and b) explain how this concept can improve public health programs.
8. This is a multi-part question. A) Discuss the research findings in the reading about the adolescent peer group and their contributions to behavior problems and B) explain how this is important to public health.