Public Health Organizations
This group is responsible for global medical well-being? (Hint: Formed by the United Nations after WWII)
What is the World Health Organization?
This means removing social, economic, and environmental disadvantages to health.
What is health equity?
Conditions in the environment where people are born, live, learn, work, play, and age.
What are the Social Determinants of Health?
The most devasting pandemic of the 20th century.
What is HIV/AIDS?
The state of complete physical, social, and mental well-being, not the absences of disease or infirmity.
What is health?
A nonprofit, independent professional association that represents a diverse membership of health promotion and health education professionals and students in the United States and several international countries.
What is the Society for Public Health Education?
Poverty, housing, transportation, food insecurity, neighborhood safety, and livable wage
What are root cause of health inequities?
It is estimated that the SDoH make up this percentage of health outcomes.
What is 70% - 90%?
On August 31, 2022, the FDA approved bivalent booster versions of the COVID-19 vaccines that protect against the BA.4 and BA.5 lineages of what COVID-19 variant?
What is the Omicron variant?
Inactivity and poor eating habits put individuals at risk for this leading cause of death in the U.S.
What is hypertension/heart disease?
Sine 1937, this organization has strived to strengthen public health leadership, advocacy and education serving as the voice of public health in Mississippi.
What is the Mississippi Public Health Association?
Making sure the same resources are available or accessible to all to address a problem.
What is equality?
These many areas make-up the SDoH.
What are 5 domains?
A disease of the nervous system in cattle that devasted the UK's beef industry in the late 1980s and early 1990s, leading to a ban on exporting the meat for years.
What is Mad Cow Disease?
Refers to the potential negative effects on communities by external stresses on human health.
What is Social Vulnerability.
Named for its founder, this private research university in Baltimore, Maryland has the number-one ranked public health program in America.
What is John Hopkins University?
Everyone has a fair and just opportunity to be as healthy as possible.
What is health equity?
What is a neighborhood/physical determinant of health?
On May 8,1980, the World Health Organization officially declared that "the world and all its people have won freedom from" what deadly infectious disease?
What is Smallpox?
Mississippi has one of the largest percentages of enrollees in the nation in this federal program.
What is Medicaid
This is the leading public health professional membership and advocacy organization in the United States championing the health of all people in all communities. (Hint: Immediate Past President is from MS).
What is the American Public Health Association?
A systematic way of finding opportunities to improve health and embed equity in everyday decision-making processes.
What is using a health equity lens.
These areas shape the distribution of health across society.
What is Money, Power, and Resources?
As of March 2020, this virus contributed to 120 million cases and caused 2.66 million deaths worldwide.
What is the COVID-19?
Top 5 leading causes of death in MS 2021
What is heart disease, cancer, COVID, Accidents, COPD