Public Health History/Issues
This mineral was added to community water systems as part of a major public health intervention.
What is fuoride.
Which public health discipline focuses on environmental risks and how they affect the health of a population?
What is environmental health?
This term refers to the state of being unhealthy/sick within a population.
What is morbidity?
This was the original name of the Ohio State University.
What is the Ohio Agricultural and Mechanical College?
This infectious disease paralyzed Franklin D. Roosevelt during his childhood
Polio
This disease is the only human infectious disease to be globally eradicated.
What is smallpox?
What specific branch of health research involves humans as the unit of investigation?
What is population health research?
This term refers to the number of new cases of a disease in a population over a specific time.
What is incidence?
These two colors were originally chosen as the university's colors in 1878.
What are black and orange?
This item is the plastic or metal tube found on the ends of shoelaces.
What is an aglet?
This Aedes mosquito-borne virus reached epidemic levels in the Americas in 2015 and 2016, leading the CDC to issue travel advisories for certain areas in Central and South America.
Zika
These public health professionals have been nicknamed “disease detectives”.
What are epidemiologists?
This term refers to when a large part of a community becomes immune to a disease, making it hard for the infection to spread to the people who are unprotected.
What is herd immunity?
The tunnels under the Columbus campus span about this many miles.
What is two miles?
This president became mayor of Buffalo, governor of New York, and president of the United States within a 3 1/2 year period.
Who is Grover Cleveland?
During the Crimean War, this famous nurse revolutionized hospital sanitation and used statistical data graphics to advocate for hygiene reforms.
Who was Florence Nightingale?
This public health career connects local residents with medical and education resources/services.
What are community health workers?
This term refers to a disease that is constantly present at a steady, predictable rate in a specific area.
What is endemic?
Keanu Reeves has played a former Ohio State quarterback this many times.
What is 2 times?
This health-related word evolved from a Middle English term describing the venom of a snake, originating from a Latin word meaning "slimy liquid or poison?
Virus
This natural phenomena causes more fatalities in the United States in an average year than floods, hurricanes, and tornados combined.
What is heat?
What public health field uses mathematics and data analysis to track health trends, measure treatment success, and evaluate medical studies.
What is biostatistics?
This term refers to how strong or destructive a pathogen is in damaging its host/host's immune system.
What is virulence?
This United States president has also been the governor of Ohio, but declined to become Ohio State's president because he did not feel qualified.
Who is Rutherford B. Hayes?
The appalachian trial goes through this many eastern U.S. states.
What is 14?