Social Determinants of Health
Preventable differences in health outcomes between groups of people are known as these.
What is health disparities?
According to common portion-size guidelines, a serving of this nutrient should be about the size of your fist.
What is protein?
To track the full progression of syphilis, researchers provided no effective care as this study's African American participants experienced severe health problems including blindness, mental impairment, or death.
What is the Tuskegee Syphilis Experiment?
The researcher manipulates this variable to determine its effect on the outcome.
What is the independent variable?
Arthur Ashe was the first African American man to win this prestigious tennis tournament's men's singles title in 1975.
What is Wimbledon?
These two concepts describe the difference between providing everyone the same resources and providing resources based on individual needs.
What are equality and equity?
A patient has high blood pressure, high cholestrol, and Type 2 diabetes. Together, these increase the risk of developing what disease?
What is cardiovascular disease (CVD)?
Drugs meant for the treatment of this disease were tested on NYC foster children in the 1990s.
What is HIV/AIDS?
This section of a research paper/poster explains how the study was conducted, including the design, participants, and data collection procedures.
What is methodology?
This is the only letter that does not appear in the name of any U.S. state.
What is Q?
A neighborhood has several convenience stores but no full-service grocery store within walking distance. Public health researchers would describe this community as this.
What is food desert?
This type of cholesterol is often called the "bad" cholesterol because high levels can contribute to plaque buildup in arteries.
What is LDL cholesterol?
My cells were the used without my consent as the first immortal human cells ever grown in culture. They were essential to developing the polio vaccine. They went up in the first space missions to see what would happen to cells in zero gravity.
Who is Henrietta Lacks?
This type of study follows participants over time to observe how an exposure affects the development of an outcome.
What is cohort study?
This elevated park in Manhattan was built on a former railroad track.
What is the High Line?
If a researcher wants to examine how neighborhood conditions influence diabetes, asthma, and life expectancy, this piece of demographic information would be especially useful.
What is ZIP code?
This blood vessel carries oxygen-rich blood from the heart to the rest of the body.
What is aorta?
Forced sterilization of women was performed here from 1937-1969.
What is Puerto Rico?
Before being published in a scientific journal, most articles go through this process where experts evaluate quality of the study.
What is peer review?
This bridge connects New Jersey to Manhattan.
What is the George Washington Bridge?
Unlike hospitals, public health focuses primarily on this approach to improving population health.
What is prevention?
A patient's blood pressure is recorded as 148 for systolic and 75 for diastolic. Identify the severity of this blood pressure.
What is Stage 2 Hypertension?
I am known as the Father of Gynecology. I used the non-consenting bodies of Black women being held captive as slaves for the foundations of my research.
Who is J. Marion Simms?
This type of bias occurs when participants included in a study are not representative of the target population.
What is selection bias?
This person, who was raised in Brooklyn, directed and produced movies like the 'BlacKkKlansman' and 'Love and Basketball' respectively. They are also known for being an avid Knicks fan, courtside at most home games.
Who is Spike Lee?