Missouri Department of Health and Senior Services Center for Local Public Health Services What is Public Health?


Public health’s disease control efforts have led to a sharp decline in deaths from infectious diseases since 1900


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Public health’s disease control efforts have led to a sharp decline in deaths from infectious diseases since 1900.


Missouri’s Public Health System

However, as these infectious diseases decreased, chronic diseases increased.


Missouri’s Public Health System

“Health is worth more than learning.”


Missouri’s Public Health System

“Health is worth more than learning.”

-Thomas Jefferson (1743 - 1826)

letter to his cousin John Garland Jefferson,

June 11, 1790

Top Five Leading Causes of Death, Missouri 2005

Tobacco Use


Proportion of Current Smokers Among Adults Aged 18 Years and Older, Missouri and the U.S., 1990-2006

Tobacco Use


Proportion of Current Smokers Among Adults Aged 18 Years and Older, by Region, Missouri, 2006
Northwest: 23.4%
Kansas City Area: 20%
Southwest: 23.8%
Northeast: 26.6%
Central: 31.1%
St. Louis Area: 19.8%
Southeast: 29.7%
BOONE
AUDRAIN
HOWARD
CHARITON
SALINE
MORGAN
PETTIS
CARROLL
COLE
COOPER
MILLER
CAMDEN
MONT-GOMERY
GASCONADE
PULASKI
LACLEDE
DENT
POLK
GREENE
WEBSTER
WRIGHT
DOUGLAS
HOWELL
SHANNON
CARTER
WAYNE
MADISON
BOLLINGER
ST.
FRANCOIS
STE.
GENEVIEVE
WASHINGTON
JEFFERSON
PERRY
CAPE
GIRARDEAU
SCOTT
MISSISSIPPI
STODDARD
BUTLER
PEMISCOT
DUNKLIN
ST. LOUIS
ST. CHARLES
LINCOLN
PIKE
MACON
MONROE
JOHNSON
LAFAYETTE
JACKSON
RAY
CLAY
PLATTE
CLINTON
BUCHANAN
ATCHISON
NODAWAY
LAWRENCE
JASPER
BARRY
TANEY
WORTH
HARRISON
MERCER
PUTNAM
SCHUYLER
SCOTLAND
CLARK
HOLT
ANDREW
GENTRY
DEKALB
GRUNDY
DAVIESS
SULLIVAN
ADAIR
LINN
LIVINGSTON
CALDWELL
KNOX
SHELBY
RANDOLPH
LEWIS
MARION
RALLS
CALLAWAY
CASS
WARREN
FRANKLIN
CRAWFORD
IRON
REYNOLDS
TEXAS
MARIES
NEW
MADRID
RIPLEY
OREGON
DALLAS
HICKORY
BENTON
ST. CLAIR
HENRY
CEDAR
DADE
BARTON
VERNON
BATES
STONE
McDONALD
NEWTON
CHRISTIAN
OZARK
MONITEAU
OSAGE
PHELPS

Obesity


Proportion of Obesity Among Adults Aged 18 Years and Older, Missouri and the U.S., 1990-2006

Obesity


Northwest: 28.6%
Kansas City Area: 28.3%
Southwest: 26.7%
Northeast: 30.5%
Central: 25.1%
St. Louis Area: 23%
Southeast: 32.6%
Proportion of Obesity Among Adults Aged 18 Years and Older, by Region, Missouri, 2006
BOONE
AUDRAIN
HOWARD
CHARITON
SALINE
MORGAN
PETTIS
CARROLL
COLE
COOPER
MILLER
CAMDEN
MONT-GOMERY
GASCONADE
PULASKI
LACLEDE
DENT
POLK
GREENE
WEBSTER
WRIGHT
DOUGLAS
HOWELL
SHANNON
CARTER
WAYNE
MADISON
BOLLINGER
ST.
FRANCOIS
STE.
GENEVIEVE
WASHINGTON
JEFFERSON
PERRY
CAPE
GIRARDEAU
SCOTT
MISSISSIPPI
STODDARD
BUTLER
PEMISCOT
DUNKLIN
ST. LOUIS
ST. CHARLES
LINCOLN
PIKE
MACON
MONROE
JOHNSON
LAFAYETTE
JACKSON
RAY
CLAY
PLATTE
CLINTON
BUCHANAN
ATCHISON
NODAWAY
LAWRENCE
JASPER
BARRY
TANEY
WORTH
HARRISON
MERCER
PUTNAM
SCHUYLER
SCOTLAND
CLARK
HOLT
ANDREW
GENTRY
DEKALB
GRUNDY
DAVIESS
SULLIVAN
ADAIR
LINN
LIVINGSTON
CALDWELL
KNOX
SHELBY
RANDOLPH
LEWIS
MARION
RALLS
CALLAWAY
CASS
WARREN
FRANKLIN
CRAWFORD
IRON
REYNOLDS
TEXAS
MARIES
NEW
MADRID
RIPLEY
OREGON
DALLAS
HICKORY
BENTON
ST. CLAIR
HENRY
CEDAR
DADE
BARTON
VERNON
BATES
STONE
McDONALD
NEWTON
CHRISTIAN
OZARK
MONITEAU
OSAGE
PHELPS

Core Public Health General Revenue Funding Per Capita


Fiscal Year

Missouri Public Health and You

  • In action every day, in every county of the state
  • Assures our children are immunized
  • Puts plans in place for emergency and disaster management
  • Detects and curtails infectious diseases
  • Reduces effects of diseases like diabetes and asthma
  • Monitors drinking water quality, and
  • Helps keep restaurant food safe

Test

1. A public health nursing department seeks data to confirm that its service is most efficiently using limited resources. This type of analysis is known as:

A. a cost-benefit analysis.

B. a cost-effectiveness analysis.

C. cost documentation.

D. productivity analysis.

2. The author of a research study states that the lack of statistical significance in the results may be related to the sample size and suggests that the study be replicated with a larger sample. Which statement is accurate?

A. An exact replication may produce the same results.

B. Replication of a well-designed study is appropriate.

C. Sample size is not important if the appropriate statistical techniques are applied.

D. Sample size is not related to statistical significance, so the author's suggestion is illogical.

3. Which rate is produced by dividing the number of deaths during one year by the estimated (mid-year) population?

A. Crude deaths B. Morbidity incidence

C. Mortality prevalence D. Proportional population rate

4. Within an epidemiological framework, interrelationships among a multitude of factors constitute the:

A. confounding variables.

B. natural history of a disease.

C. systems effect.

D. web of causation.

5. A statistical source for population age distributions, dependency ratios, and socioeconomic characteristics is:

5. A statistical source for population age distributions, dependency ratios, and socioeconomic characteristics is:

A. census data.

B. morbidity data.

C. service utilization data.

D. vital statistics.

6. Which scale refers to levels of magnitude or ranking?

A. Interval

B. Nominal

C. Ordinal

D. Ratio

7. Which type of power is associated with the role of the advanced public health nurse?

A. Expert

B. Legitimate

C. Referent

D. Reward

8. A grant proposal for a domestic violence prevention program addresses which characteristic of the target population?

A. Current health care needs

B. Prevalent risk factors

C. Specific health conditions

D. Utilization of health care services

9. Surveying clients' knowledge of resources, identifying resource eligibility criteria, and comparing income levels with agency fee structures are steps in which part of the grant proposal process?

9. Surveying clients' knowledge of resources, identifying resource eligibility criteria, and comparing income levels with agency fee structures are steps in which part of the grant proposal process?

A. Budgeting

B. Evaluation

C. Needs assessment

D. Program design

10. When assessing a community's health care needs, an advanced public health nurse interviews a first-grade teacher and the editor of the weekly news bulletin. The nurse is using which data collection method?

A. Key informant

B. Nominal group

C. Participant observer

D. Social survey


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