Public Health History
The Father of Field Epidemiology.
Who is John Snow?
This nutrition program provides food assistance to mothers and children from low-income families.
What is WIC?
A Group of People with a Common Characteristic
What is a Population?
Refers to the ways of perceiving and organizing ideas about health and illness as modified by the traditions of society.
What is Culture?
Which State has the highest life expectancy?
What is Hawaii? 79.9 Years
This disease killed 2 million people each year worldwide and was completely eradicated globally in the 1970's.
What is Smallpox?
What is Immunized?
Factors or events influencing the occurrence of health - related events
What is a determinant?
Inactivity & Poor Eating Habits Put Individuals at Risk for this Leading Cause of Death in the U.S.
What is High Blood Pressure & Hypertension?
Which Multistate Outbreak was linked to meats sliced at delis?
Listeria
The Pioneer of Germ Theory.
Who is Robert Koch?
Core Function of Public Health
Assessment, Policy Development and Assurance
When the occurrence of a disease exceeds the normal rate.
What is an epidemic?
This condition could be called a leading risk factor for a large number of health problems - including obesity, diabetes, and asthma.
What is Poverty?
Over five years, this was linked to as many as 7,000 preterm births in California, a new study says.
What is Wildfire Smoke?
Longitudinal study of over 14,000 people over three generations, that found that high blood pressure and high blood cholesterol are major risk factors for cardiovascular disease.
What is Framingham Heart Study?
Since 1900, life expectancy has increased by 30 years in the US. How many years are attributed to Public Health Programs/Interventions?
What is 25 years?
A study that compares people who have a sickness, medical or health condition, or injury to a group of people without the sickness, medical or health condition or injury
What is a case - control study?
Name a community asset that serves as a resource.
What are food access and availability, quality education, good transportation and planning, affordable housing, good jobs and work opportunities, business investment and development, income and wealth, social supports, public spaces, green spaces, recreational opportunities?
Usage of this is at a historic high for college - age adults, according to a new study.
What is Marijuana?
The name of the street/pump in London where the cholera outbreak was traced to.
What is the Broad St Pump?
Federal organization that conducts research and collects data to help control the spread of diseases.
What are the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention?
Rate of Development of Disease in a Group Over a Certain Time Period
What is Incidence rate?
The conditions in the environments where people are born, live, learn, work, play affect a wide range of health, functioning, and quality of life outcomes and risks.
What are the Social Determinants of Health?
5,000 people are expected to join the public health workforce over 5 years under a partnership with CDC and this program.
What is AmeriCorps?