Epidemiology
What is the term for the number of new cases of a disease in a specific period of time?
What measure describes how many people currently have a disease at a given time?
What is INCIDENCE?
What is PREVALENCE?
What is the primary U.S. federal agency for protecting public health and safety?
What is the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC)?
What is the United Nations specialized agency responsible for improving international public health?
What is the World Health Organization (WHO)?
What is the condition of lacking stable, safe, and affordable housing?
What is housing insecurity?
What is the name of an inanimate object that can carry and transfer infections?
What is a FOMITE?
What is the world's deadliest infectious disease, with approximately 1.5 million deaths annually?
What is Tuberculosis?
What is the term for neighborhoods that lack grocery stores and access to affordable, healthy food?
What is a food desert?
This person tracked a London Cholera outbreak to a single water pump in 1854. He is considered a founder of modern epidemiology.
Who is John Snow?
What are the three components of the Epidemiological Triangle?
What are HOST, AGENT, AND ENVIRONMENT?
This act was signed into law in 2010 to expand health insurance coverage and reform the healthcare marketplace.
What is the Affordable Care Act (ACA)?
What is the illegal practice of denying financial services, such as loans and mortgages, to residents of certain neighborhoods based on their race or ethnicity?
What is redlining?
In what year were the Medicaid and Medicare acts first established?
When is 1965?
What study design follows a group of individuals over time to determine disease outcomes?
What is a COHORT STUDY?
It was the first widely publicized official recognition that cigarette smoking is a cause of cancer and other serious diseases, particularly chronic bronchitis and lung cancer
What was the First Surgeon General’s Report?
What concept connects the social, environmental, and economic systems influencing community health?
What is the Ecological Model of Health?
What describes the cumulative physiological wear and tear on the body that is caused by prolonged or repeated exposure to stressors?
What is Allostatic Load?
What is the mathematical term that describes how contagious an infectious disease is?
What is the BASIC REPRODUCTION NUMBER (R0)?
What are the 5 key areas of the social determinants of health, as defined by Healthy People 2030?
What are Economic stability, Education access and quality, Health care access and quality, Neighborhood and built environment, and Social and community context?