John Has Just Taken a Job as a PHN at the Local

question 6

Multiple Choice

John has just taken a job as a PHN at the local public health department in a high-income county adjacent to a large metropolitan area. He has been asked to work with the team that does outbreak investigations and conducts surveillance. As part of John's work in outbreak investigations, which three precipitating factors, also known as the epidemiological constants, should he consider to help guide these investigations?

• A)Person, agent, and time
• B)Host, agent, and time
• C)Person, place, and environment
• D)Person, place, and time

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Definitions:

Electra Conflict

A psychoanalytic theory describing a girl’s psychosexual competition with her mother for possession of her father.

Latency Period

A phase in Freudian psychology referring to an intermediate stage of psychosexual development in children, during which sexual instincts are temporarily inactive.

Repressed

A psychological term referring to thoughts, memories, or desires being unconsciously held back from conscious awareness.

Reaction Formation

A defense mechanism where unacceptable impulses or ideas are dealt with by exaggerating the opposite state of mind or type of behavior.