Lectures 11 and 12: Chapter 3- Powers and Responsibilities of Government (cont).
After this lecture, you should be able to answer the following:
1. What is the Public Health Service (PHS)? What is its history? Is it a Commissioned Service? What does that mean? Who is the leader of the PHS? Who does this PHS leader report to? Who is the current Surgeon General? What is his stance on folic acid for pregnant mothers? What kinds of things will folic acid prevent? How can we get folic acid to all pregnant mothers, even those in under-developed countries where resources are scarce? Suggest/develop a policy that might help meet that goal. Is that policy realistic?
2. What are the minimum requirements to be Surgeon General?
3. What is the name of the weekly publication issued by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention? You can find that publication at: www.cdc.gov/mmwr/index.html
4. What was so significant about the First Surgeon General's Report on Smoking and Health?
5. What do we know about the prevalence of cigarette use in racial/ethnic populations in the United States as measured from 1999-2001. In each age group studied, who smokes the most? the least?
6. What is the National Institutes of Health? What is the National Library of Medicine? What is Pubmed?
7. Tell your study partner about the first Pure Food Law that was enacted in America. When was it enacted? where? what was the point of it?
8. What is a nostrum?
9. Who was Harvey Washington Wiley? What was he famous for? What were the "poison squad" experiments?
10. Who was Upton Sinclair? What was his book about? Was it a book that had a significant impact on Public Health? How so?
11. Who was Samuel Hopkins Adams? Do you think that he enjoyed drinking Peruna?
12. Tell your study partner about the Pure Food and Drug Act passed by Congress in 1906. What was the point of the legislation?
13. What happened in 1937 to trigger a public outcry that resulted in passage of the Food, Drug and Cosmetic Act of 1938? How did that Act differ from the Pure Food and Drug Act of 1906?
14. What is thalidomide? What was it used for? What was it found to cause in newborns of mothers who took it during pregnancy? Was it ever sold for morning-sickness in the United States? On the heels of the thalidomide crisis in Europe, what Amendment to the Food, Drug and Cosmetic Act was passed? What was the purpose of this amendment?
15. What was the "Dalkon-Shield?" Is it a drug? a food? a medical device? what was it about this product that caused problems? Which amendment to the Food, Drug and Cosmetic Act was passed following the Dalkon-Shield Disaster? What was the point of that amendment?
16. What are the long term effects of ramelteon? What do you mean we don't know? Why don't we know? Didn't the clinical trials do long-term studies? Hmm... interesting.. don't you think? You'll be dispensing this drug one day.
17. Make sure you read the assigned articles carefully and answer the homework questions.
1. What is the Public Health Service (PHS)? What is its history? Is it a Commissioned Service? What does that mean? Who is the leader of the PHS? Who does this PHS leader report to? Who is the current Surgeon General? What is his stance on folic acid for pregnant mothers? What kinds of things will folic acid prevent? How can we get folic acid to all pregnant mothers, even those in under-developed countries where resources are scarce? Suggest/develop a policy that might help meet that goal. Is that policy realistic?
2. What are the minimum requirements to be Surgeon General?
3. What is the name of the weekly publication issued by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention? You can find that publication at: www.cdc.gov/mmwr/index.html
4. What was so significant about the First Surgeon General's Report on Smoking and Health?
5. What do we know about the prevalence of cigarette use in racial/ethnic populations in the United States as measured from 1999-2001. In each age group studied, who smokes the most? the least?
6. What is the National Institutes of Health? What is the National Library of Medicine? What is Pubmed?
7. Tell your study partner about the first Pure Food Law that was enacted in America. When was it enacted? where? what was the point of it?
8. What is a nostrum?
9. Who was Harvey Washington Wiley? What was he famous for? What were the "poison squad" experiments?
10. Who was Upton Sinclair? What was his book about? Was it a book that had a significant impact on Public Health? How so?
11. Who was Samuel Hopkins Adams? Do you think that he enjoyed drinking Peruna?
12. Tell your study partner about the Pure Food and Drug Act passed by Congress in 1906. What was the point of the legislation?
13. What happened in 1937 to trigger a public outcry that resulted in passage of the Food, Drug and Cosmetic Act of 1938? How did that Act differ from the Pure Food and Drug Act of 1906?
14. What is thalidomide? What was it used for? What was it found to cause in newborns of mothers who took it during pregnancy? Was it ever sold for morning-sickness in the United States? On the heels of the thalidomide crisis in Europe, what Amendment to the Food, Drug and Cosmetic Act was passed? What was the purpose of this amendment?
15. What was the "Dalkon-Shield?" Is it a drug? a food? a medical device? what was it about this product that caused problems? Which amendment to the Food, Drug and Cosmetic Act was passed following the Dalkon-Shield Disaster? What was the point of that amendment?
16. What are the long term effects of ramelteon? What do you mean we don't know? Why don't we know? Didn't the clinical trials do long-term studies? Hmm... interesting.. don't you think? You'll be dispensing this drug one day.
17. Make sure you read the assigned articles carefully and answer the homework questions.
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