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 period called between exposure to an infection and the appearance of symptoms?
What is an Incubation Period?
What is the name of an inanimate object that can carry and transfer infections?
What is a FOMITE?
What is the U.S. food assistance program that improves the food security, nutritional status, and overall health of eligible low-income individuals and families?
What is the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP)?
What is the term for an outbreak of disease that spreads across countries or continents?
What is a Pandemic?
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 study design follows a group of individuals over time to determine disease outcomes?
What is a COHORT STUDY?
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)?
Diseases that originate in animals and spread to humans are called this.
What are Zoonotic Diseases?
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 are the three components of the Epidemiological Triangle?
What are HOST, AGENT, AND ENVIRONMENT?
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 is the world's deadliest infectious disease, with approximately 1.5 million deaths annually?
What is Tuberculosis?
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 health strategy was proposed by U.S. Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. to address chronic disease by focusing on food, nutrition, and vaccine safety. Its key components include reforming vaccine safety and schedules, reducing processed foods and certain food dyes, and revamping the food pyramid and nutrition standards.
Launched in 2003, what U.S. government initiative was created to address the global HIV/AIDS pandemic? (Full name!)
What is the President's Emergency Plan for AIDS Relief (PEPFAR)?
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?
In what year did the CDC publish a report on five cases of Pneumocystis pneumonia in previously healthy homosexual men, which marked the beginning of an AIDS epidemic that ultimately claimed millions of lives?
When was 1981?