Infectious Disease
Also called a pathogen, this is a small microorganism that causes disease. Some examples are viruses, bacteria, and prions!
What is a germ?
Abnormal or excessive fat that presents a risk to health, this is also when a person's BMI is over 30
What is obesity?
The branch of public health concerned with monitoring or reducing risk factors in the environment that affect human health and disease
What is Environmental Health?
This is activity requiring physical effort, carried out to sustain or improve health and fitness
What is exercise?
The science and art of preventing disease, prolonging life, and promoting health through the organized efforts and informed choices of society, organizations, public/private communities, and individuals
What is Public Health?
The complex network of cells, tissues, organs, and the substances they make that helps the body fight infections and other diseases.
What is the immune system?
The chronic (long-lasting) health condition that affects how your body turns food into energy by affecting insulin. (Hint! there are three types: Type 1, Type 2, and Gestational)
What is Diabetes?
A serious, chronic lung disease that causes the airways to become narrow and makes it hard to breathe. This can often caused by environmental triggers, such as molds, dust mites, and tobacco smoke
What is Asthma?
Any beverage with added sugar or other sweeteners (high fructose corn syrup, sucrose, fruit juice concentrates, and more) that are the single largest source of calories and added sugar in the U.S. diet. (REMINDER: All foods and drinks are ok in moderation)
What are sugary drinks?
This public health organization promotes and encourages health around the world!
What is the World Health Organization?
A tiny, infectious particle that lives inside of living organisms that can make them very sick. This is an example of a pathogen.
What is a virus?
The measurement of the force of blood pushing against the walls of your arteries. Arteries carry blood from your heart to other parts of your body.
What is blood pressure?
A mixture of air pollutants which includes particulates, nitrogen oxides, ozone, etc. This often has a brown haze due to the presence of nitrogen dioxide.
What is Smog?
The process of drinking 4 or more alcoholic drinks on an occasion for a woman or 5 or more alcoholic drinks on an occasion for a man. This causes 40% of the deaths from alcohol abuse.
What is binge drinking?
The science of taking in and use of food and other nourishing material by the body.
What is nutrition?
A zoonotic (meaning transmitted from animals to humans) disease that causes madness, fever, convulsions, excess saliva, and fear of water
What is Rabies?
In the United States in 2020, this was the SECOND leading cause of death.
What is Cancer?
The process of long term shifts in temperatures and weather patterns. An example of this is global warming.
What is climate change?
This health risk (causes harm) behavior starts primarily in adolescence
What is smoking?
In 2022, about 1 out of every 30 middle school students (3.3%) reported that they had used one of these in the past 30 days
What is an electronic cigarette? (vape device)
The process of separating ALREADY sick people from people who are not sick
What is Isolation?
This is the number one thing to avoid when trying to prevent all chronic diseases
What is smoking?
This scientific element can be found in old gasoline or certain types of paint and it can cause poisoning if inhaled or ingested. Globally, 1 million people per year die from poisoning of this element and millions more are affected!
What is Lead?
2019 in the state of Ohio, the prevalence (how much something occurs among people) of this unhealthy behavior among high school students was a whopping 80.9%!
What is short sleep? (less than 8 hours per night)
This is the name of the state health department in Ohio
What is the Ohio Department of Health (ODH)?