What is Public Health?/Ethics/Typhoid Mary
Infectious Disease Basics/Infectious Disease Epidemiology & Surveillance
Public Health Preparedness
Vaccination and Herd Immunity
Disease Elimination & Eradication/Infection Control & Antibiotic Resistance
100

List 2 differences between public health and health care.

Public Health: population level, preventing illness, health promotion-goal is to prevent disease

Health Care: individual level, healing ill patients, care and treatment-goal is to cure disease

100

Who is known as the Father of Epidemiology, and what did they study in order to earn this name?

John Snow - how cholera was spread

100

When we cannot prevent these emergencies/disasters from happening, we try to ________ their impact.

reduce

100

Reduction to zero of the incidence of a specified disease in a defined geographical area as a result of deliberate efforts; continued intervention measures are required.

Elimination

100

Fear of vaccine safety, misinformation, and lack of knowledge are examples of what type of key challenges to achieving herd immunity for vaccine-preventable diseases in the US?

Hesitancy

200

This is restriction of people’s individual freedom with the aim of protecting their health and safety (protecting themselves from harm).  

Paternalism

200

______________ describes a disease occurring within an area or community at all times (the constant presence of a disease in a geographic population) 

Endemic

200

Natural disasters such as hurricanes, blizzards, and forest fires are known as typically __________ disasters.

predictable

200

A severe allergy is what kind of vaccine requirement exemption?

Medical exemption

200

Cost/financial barrier, insurance coverage, and location/distance to care are examples of what type of key challenges to achieving herd immunity for vaccine-preventable diseases in the US?

Access

300

This describes the tension in public health between giving priority to individuals-individual autonomy-and promoting the good of groups or populations.

Fundamental ethical dilemma of public health

300

What mode of transmission occurs when a person is exposed to the agent by touching a table or doorknob.

Indirect transmission or vehicle-borne transmission

300
Name one of the roles public health plays in emergencies/disasters.

Planning in advance of the emergency. Working with other agencies to ensure coordination of all the
activities of the responders. Be knowledgeable about the community and its resources

300

What is it called when everyone that is contact with a
newborn is immunized 

Cocooning

300

Describe a key risk factor for one of the 5 most common healthcare-associated infections (HAIs).

Ventilator-Associated Pneumonia (VAP)-Key risk factor: duration of mechanical ventilation use. Surgical Site/Wound Infection (SSI)-Key risk factor: duration of operation. (Time that tissue is exposed to the environment, leading to an increased chance of contamination.). Catheter-Associated Urinary Tract Infection (CAUTI)-Key risk factor: duration of urinary catheter use (prolonged use).Central Line-Associated Bloodstream Infection (CLABSI)-Key risk factor: duration of central line use. Gastrointestinal Infection-Key risk factor: antibiotic use




400

This strategy seeks root causes of disease and disability and addresses issues through prevention rather than treatment. 

Upstream metaphor

400
What is necessary in order to make eradication possible?
There must be no nonhuman reservoir and a vaccine must exist.
400

What is this type of surge capacity known as? Supplies, medicines, and devices are in a stockpile
for short-term lifesaving care when emergencies
occur 

Strategic National Stockpile (SNS)

400

What does this describe? Some of the population gets immunized-contagious disease spreads through some of the population.

Individual protection

400

Transmission of antibiotic resistant infections is facilitated by increased trade, travel, and human/animal migration. What describes this?

Globalization

500

As part of the ___________________ function, public health seeks to understand the medical care system in an area of study generally referred to as health policy and management or health administration, which also includes the administration and functioning of the public health system. (making resources/services accessible to all members of all communities)

assurance

500

List the 6 links in the chain of infection, and describe one of the links.

1. Infectious agent (pathogen): virus, bacterium, or parasite that causes the disease in humans

2. Reservoir: place where pathogen lives and multiplies

3. Poral of exit: where the pathogen leaves/exits the host

4. Method/Mode of Transmission: the way pathogen travels from one host to another, or from a reservoir to a new host

5. Portal of entry: where the pathogen enters the host

6. Susceptible host: even if the pathogen enters, a new potential host may not be susceptible because that host has immunity to the pathogen




500

What is the ability to evaluate and care for a high increase volume of patients/cases? (adequate staff, supplies, equipment, structures to meet need of influx of patients)

surge capacity

500

The number of people infected by one case in a completely susceptible population

R naught or R0

500

Explain why healthcare-associated infections (HAIs) are typically more severe and difficult to treat than community-acquired infections?

Healthcare-associated infections are typically caused by multidrug-resistant pathogens

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