Public Health English Final Exam

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Exercise 1 Taking History (15 points)
Explain, why does a doctor take a patients history and what kind of information he wants to obtain?
Then, match the questions with the answers:

1. Can I ask you how old are you?

2. How long have you been married?
3. Do you take any exercise?
4. Have you ever had an X-ray of your chest?
5. Can I ask you about your parents?
6. What did your father die from?
7. Have you ever lived in a tropical country?
8. Is there anything which is worrying you
at the moment?
9. What do you do?
10. How many cigarettes do you smoke?
year.
11. How much do you drink?
12. Which childhood illnesses did you have?

A. I cycle to work normally.

B. About twenty a day.
C. Im not sure, just old age I think.
D. Yes, I worked in East Asia for two years.
E. Im fifty-five.
F. Yes, but it was a long time ago.
G. One or two glasses of wine each day.
H. I work in a clothing factory.
I. I think I only had measles.
J. Twenty-five years. Its our silver wedding this
K. Theyre both dead now.
L. Nothing more than the usual daily problems.

Exercise 2 - The doctor and his patient (10 points)

Describe the doctors responsibilities. What are the characteristic features that an effective physician
should posses?

Exercise 3 (5 points)
Apart from general practitioners- doctors who diagnose and treat nearly all types of complaints- there
are also specialists-, doctors who concentrate on a particular type of a disease. Please, define the
following specialists:
1. A dermatologist
2. A urologist
3. An otolarygologist
4. A paediatrician

5. A cardiologist
Exercise 4 (15 points)
Match the definitions with the medical terms:
1. The long-term results of an illness or treatment.
2. Things wrong with the body which the patient
complains or experiences.
3. A study of the patients body.
4. An unusual feature which may be worrying
or dangerous.
5. The identification of a particular illness.
6. A change in the structure or function
of the organs or tissue of the body.
7. What the doctor can see of the illness.
8. Taking away the cause of illness or
finding it early.
9. Patients medical background, problems, behavior,
and lifestyle.
10. Difficulty breathing.
11. Difficulty passing urine.
12. Difficulty swallowing.
13. General feeling of being unwell.
14. Loss of appetite.
15. Loss of energy.

A. Disease
B. History
C. Prevention
D. Symptoms
E. Examination
F. Dysuria
G. Sequelae
H. Malaise
I. Anorexia
J. Dysphagia
K. Fatigue
L. Abnormality
M. Diagnosis
N. Signs
O. Dyspnoea

Exercise 5 (15 points)

Answer the following questions:
1. Balanced Diet - what is it about?

2. Enumerate five basic constituents of food, and give examples of products where they can be
found:
a)
b)
c)
d)
e)
3. What is holistic medicine? And what methods of treatment does it involve?