Public Health
This federal agency in the United States is responsible for disease prevention and control, health promotion, and emergency preparedness.
What is the CDC (Centers for Disease Control and Prevention)?
UIC is located in this major U.S. city.
Who is Sparky D. Dragon?
This U.S. federal program provides health insurance to individuals aged 65 and older and certain younger people with disabilities.
What is Medicare?
This social determinant refers to where people live, work, and play, and its impact on access to resources such as healthy food, clean water, and healthcare.
What is the built environment?
This 1990s public health campaign promoted "Just Say No" but was later criticized for being ineffective in preventing youth drug use.
What is the D.A.R.E. program?
Washing your hands for at least this many seconds is recommended to reduce the spread of infectious diseases.
What is 20 seconds?
This college at UIC is known for its highly ranked public health programs.
What is the School of Public Health?
This 1996 U.S. law protects patient health information and ensures privacy in medical records.
What is HIPAA (Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act)?
These factors include the physical, social, and emotional conditions in which people are born, grow, live, and age, affecting long-term health and well-being.
What are the social determinants of health?
This U.S. city faced a public health crisis in 2014 when its water supply was contaminated with lead, exposing thousands to toxic levels.
What is the Flint Water Crisis?
This social determinant of health refers to the conditions in which people are born, grow, live, work, and age.
What are the social determinants of health?
This popular student event at UIC features carnival rides, games, and giveaways to kick off the fall semester.
What is Spark in the Park?
This international organization, founded in 1948, is responsible for global public health policies and coordinating responses to health emergencies.
What is the World Health Organization (WHO)?
This refers to the ability of individuals and communities to access healthcare services, impacting prevention, treatment, and overall health.
What is access to healthcare?
This unethical U.S. study, lasting from 1932 to 1972, observed the progression of syphilis in Black men without providing treatment, leading to massive public distrust in medical institutions.
What is the Tuskegee Syphilis Study?
This 1854 cholera outbreak in London led to a breakthrough in epidemiology when this physician traced the source to a contaminated water pump.
Who is John Snow?
The original name of UIC when it was established in 1965.
What is the University of Illinois at Chicago Circle?
This landmark 2010 U.S. law expanded healthcare coverage and prohibited insurers from denying coverage due to pre-existing conditions.
What is the Affordable Care Act (ACA)?
This is the term for health disparities that arise from unequal access to healthcare or social resources, often along racial, ethnic, or economic lines.
What is health inequity?
This 1980s epidemic was largely ignored by the U.S. government in its early years, delaying critical public health interventions and increasing stigma against affected communities.
What is the HIV/AIDS crisis?
This type of study in epidemiology follows a group of people over time to determine how different exposures affect disease outcomes.
What is a cohort study?
This UIC library, named after a former Chicago mayor, is one of the largest public research libraries in the city.
What is the Richard J. Daley Library?
This public health policy framework describes strategies for preventing disease and promoting health at three levels: primary, secondary, and tertiary prevention.
What is the Prevention Pyramid (or levels of prevention)?
This determinant includes factors like income, employment status, and educational attainment, which can significantly affect health outcomes.
What are socioeconomic factors?
In the early 20th century, this public health campaign promoted forced sterilizations of marginalized groups in the name of "genetic purity."
What is the eugenics movement?