Definitions
People/Places
Intervention
Wheel
Diseases
Rates
100
The study of the distribution and determinants of health-related states or events in human populations and the application of this study to the prevention and control of health problems
What is Epidemiology (page 90, manual)
100
A branch of the federal Department of Health and Human Services, this agency's mission statement reads: "Collaborating to create the expertise, information, and tools that people and communities need to protect their health – through health promotion, prevention of disease, injury and disability, and preparedness for new health threats"
What is the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC).
100
This secondary prevention activity is undertaken to identify risk factors and diseases in their earliest stages
What is Screening (page 78, text)
100
The general term for a disease that can be spread from person to person
What is Communicable (or infectious)
100
The number of individuals who develop the disease over a defined period of time or the number of new cases of a particular condition identified over a period of time
What is Incidence (page 72, text; page 90, manual)
200
Occurrence in a community of cases of an illness, specific health-related behavior, or other health-related events clearly in excess of normal expectancy, Examples include HIV in Africa and obesity in the U.S.
What is an epidemic (page 90, manual)
200
This London based physician is often referred to as the "father of epidemiology" for his work during the cholera outbreak of 1855
Who is John Snow (page 68, text)
200
A mechanism for collecting ongoing community health date including disease incidence and prevalence
What is Surveillance (page 80, text)
200
The most commonly reported infectious disease in the United States
What is Chlamydia
200
Expressed as a rate per 1000 this represents the number of live births during 1 year/number of women between the ages of 15 and 44. This number is inversely proportional to a country's economic development.
What is fertility rate (page 76, text)
300
Interventions aimed at intervening before the disease process begins.
What is primary prevention (page 77, text)
300
The national agency responsible for tracking the prevalence and incidence of cancer across communities as well as course, treatment and survival rates.
What is the National Cancer Institute (NCI), page 81, text
300
The three levels of practice identified by the Intervention wheel
What is community, systems, and individual/family (page 13, text)
300
1/3 of the world's population is infected with this
What is mycobacterum tuberculosis
300
Expressed as a rate per 1000, this is the number of live births during the year/total population
What is crude birth rate (page 76, text)
400
The basic premise of this epidemiological theory is that health, disease, and well-being are socially produced within constantly evolving biological and socially conditioned parameters that are integrally connected.
What is ecosocial epidemiology (page 387, MacDonald article)
400
A U.S. Public Health Service longitudinal study begun in 1932 that violated the human subjects rights of hundreds African American sharecroppers resulting in unneccessary death, spread of disease and congenital transmission of disease
What is The Tuskegee Syphilis Study (page 85, text)
400
The number of interventions identified by the Intervention Wheel
What is 17 (page 13, text)
400
The Framington Study was a prospective study that helped to form the basis for making recommendations at reducing risk factors for this disease
What is Cardiovascular Disease (page 86, text)
400
Incidence rate of disease in the exposed population / incidence rate of disease in the non-exposed population; a valuable indicator of the excess risk incurred by exposure to certain factors (ie second hand smoke, carcinogens)
What is Relative Risk Ratio (page 77, text)
500
Two terms used to evaluate the validity of a screening tool; the ability of the test to detect true positives and the ability of the test to detect true negatives
What is sensitivity and specificity (page 79, text)
500
Currently serving as President Obama's Secretary of Health and Human Services
Who is Kathleen Sebelius
500
Which intervention is a systems-level intervention that might involve local and state public health working to coordinate a response to cases of measles in the community
What is Disease Investigation (page 13, text)
500
The term used for populations at risk from premature death/disability due to both communicable and chronic diseases
What is "The double burden of disease"
500
Name 2 of the 6 criteria necessary to establish the existence of a cause-and-effect relationship
What is: strength of association, dose-response relationship, temporally correct relationship, biological plausibility, consistency with other studies, and specificity (page 78, text)
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