Public Health History
This Chinese invention developed about 5,000 years ago was great for eating dumplings and played an early role in improved sanitation and hygiene.
What are chopsticks?
This heavy metal (not Metallica) is dangerous for fetal development and found in fish.
What is mercury?
This important public health person is interested in the causes of diseases and how to control them, the frequency and geographic distribution of diseases, and the causal relationships between diseases.
What is an epidemiologist?
This official name of this piece of legislation commonly referred to as "Obamacare".
What is the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act?
Marion is named after this American Revolutionary War general, also known as the Swamp Fox and inspired the Mel Gibson movie The Patriot.
Who is Francis Marion?
This class of drugs developed from Alexander Fleming's discovery of penicillin in 1928 are used preventatively against bacterial diseases.
What are antibiotics?
This process is known as the sterilization of milk.
What is pasteurization?
The outbreak of a disease across multiple countries.
What is a pandemic?
At this age, U.S. citizens are eligible for the health insurance program, Medicare.
What is 65 years old?
This legendary footballer helped create an all-Native American NFL team called the Oorang Indians in Larue during the early 1920's.
Who is Jim Thorpe?
A trade deal gone wrong. This 14th century pandemic spread through rodents and fleas from trading ships killed more than 100 million people.
What is the Bubonic Plague?
This "sailor sickness" plagued ship crews for thousands of years. To treat it, eat a lemon or an orange.
What is scurvy?
The number of observations in a study, AKA n.
What is sample size?
This acronym is used to represent the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services.
What is CMS?
This landmark located just 1600 feet from MPH was where Marion was first founded during the War of 1812. General William H. Harrison and his troops camped here and drank from the well.
What is Jacob's Well?
She was "Patient Zero" of the 1906 New York typhoid epidemic. Doctors called her the most dangerous woman in America.
Who is Mary Mallon / Typhoid Mary?
Folic acid, a water-soluble B Vitamin, prevents these in developing fetuses.
What are birth defects?
This sector of statistics deals with the development and application of statistics in health-related fields.
What is biostatistics?
As part of health reform legislation, this insurance program has been expanded in many states to include individuals who earn up to 138 percent of the Federal Poverty Level, annually.
What is Medicaid?
This former 1990's Ohio State Buckeye quarterback became part-owner of the now defunct Marion Mayhem in 2007 and still holds two Continental Indoor Football League records.
Who is Stanley Jackson?
The Public Health Cigarette Smoking Act banned smoking in many indoor areas and designated specific smoking areas in this year.
What is 1970?
This minimal internal temperature (Fahrenheit) stated by the Ohio Administrative Code is used to cook poultry to ensure that foodborne bacteria have been destroyed.
What is 165 degrees Fahrenheit?
"The Father of Modern Epidemiology"
Who is John Snow?
This model of healthcare delivery and financing is also called an “ACO.”
What are Accountable Care Organizations?
Marion's own President Warren G. Harding was sworn into the presidency this year.
What is 1921?