General Health
Stopping Disease
Vaccines
What affects our health?
Risky Business
100

This is the combination of physical, mental/emotional, and social well-being.

Health

100

Naturally virus and corresponding disease was destroyed worldwide by 1980. In addition to flu-like symptoms, patients also experience a rash that appear first on the face, hands and forearms, and then later appears on the trunk.

Small Pox

100

This is a a substance used to stimulate the production of antibodies and provide immunity against one or several diseases, prepared from the causative agent of a disease, its products, or a synthetic substitute, treated to act as an antigen without inducing the disease.

Vaccines

100

This refers to all the traits that were biologically passed on to you from your parents.

Heredity

100

These are people of the same age who share similar interests, also include your friends.

Peers

200

This is an overall state of well-being or total health.

Wellness

200

This is a strategy to inhibit the spread of a disease by vaccinating those who are most likely to be infected. This strategy vaccinates the contacts of confirmed patients, and people who are in close contact with those contacts

Ring Vaccination

200

These vaccines use a different approach that takes advantage of the process that cells use to make proteins: cells use DNA as the template to make messenger RNA (mRNA) molecules, which are then translated to build proteins.

mRNA or DNA Vaccines


200

This refers to the collective beliefs, customs, and behaviors of a group.

Culture

200

These are actions that can potentially threaten your health or the health of others

Risk Behaviors

300

This is includes our emotional, psychological, and social well-being. It affects how we think, feel, and act.

Mental Health

300

The is a form of indirect protection from infectious disease that can occur with some diseases when a sufficient percentage of a population has become immune to an infection, whether through vaccination or previous infections, thereby reducing the likelihood of infection for individuals who lack immunity

Herd Immunity

300

This type of  vaccine use the killed version of the germ that causes a disease and usually don’t provide immunity (protection) that’s as strong as live vaccines. So you may need several doses over time (booster shots) in order to get ongoing immunity against diseases.

Inactivated Vaccines

300

This is the sum of your surroundings, including the physical places in which you live and the people who make up your world.

Environment

300

These differences in health outcomes among groups are called....

Health Disparities

400

This is a deep seated sense of meaning and purpose in life.

Spiritual Health

400

This can be a harmless pill, medicine, or procedure prescribed more for the psychological benefit to the patient than for any physiological effect.

Placebo

400

This a weakened form of the germ that causes a disease. Because these vaccines are so similar to the natural infection that they help prevent, they create a strong and long-lasting immune response.

Live-attenuated Vaccines


400

These are the various methods for communicating information.

Media

400

These are related risk that increase in effect with each added risk.

Cumulative Risk

500

This is an ongoing condition or illness such as heart disease, obesity, and cancer.

Chronic Disease

500

This is the expected amount of people infected by one person

Reproduction Number

500

These type of vaccines use specific pieces of the germ—like its protein, sugar, or capsid (a casing around the germ).
 Because these vaccines use only specific pieces of the germ, they give a very strong immune response that’s targeted to key parts of the germ.

Subunit Vaccines

500

The use of science in industry, engineering, etc., to invent useful things or to solve problems

Technology

500

This refers to a person's capacity to learn about and understand basic health information and services and to use these resources to promote one's health and wellness.

Health Literacy

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