A virus infection that renders the body incapable of fighting off the most common disease and is usually fatal. Considered to be the end stage of a positive HIV diagnosis.
What is Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndrome (AIDS)?
100
Disease that can be spread from one person to another.
What is Communicable Disease?
100
Excessive water loss from the body or from an organ or bodily part.
What is Dehydration?
100
An illness
What is Disease?
100
A vaccine for three diseases; diptheria, tetanus, and pertussis.
What is DTP?
200
Procedures for getting children and staff out of the building; applied during the fire drills and any other emergency situations.
What is Evacuation Plan?
200
The total well being of the physical body (including the emotions, the mind, and spirit) and the absence of disease or other abnormal condition.
What is Health?
200
An estimate of the state of health of a child based upon observation of his/her health history and measurements of physical growth.
What is Health Assessment?
200
A record of major health (and illness) events in a child's life including immunization information.
What is Health History?
200
The foods that we eat and how our body uses them.
What is Nutrition?
300
A vaccine for polio, which is given orally.
What is OPV?
300
A group of substances that produce immunity to disease in a person.
What is Vaccine?
300
Any food eaten between formal meals.
What is Snacks?
300
Things in the enviornment that can be identified as dangerous to one's health and welfare.
What is Safety Hazards?
300
Teaching nutrition to prepare children to make correct food choices.
What is Nutrition Education?
400
A vaccie for three diseases; mumps, measles, and rubella.
What is MMR?
400
A physical need for food.
What is Hunger?
400
Administration of a vaccine to make the body build up a defense against a disease.
What is Immunization?
400
Infants or children whose mother have taken one or more illegal drugs while pregnant.
What is Substance Exposed Infants/Children (Birth-12)?
400
A designated area for a child who becomes ill at the facility.
What is Isolation Area?
500
Specific substances contained in food, which are necessary for good health such as proteins, carbohydrates, vitamins, minerals and fats.
What is Nutrients?
500
On-going use of substance, which is formally considered harmful to the body and is often illegal (drugs, tobacco, and alcohol)
What is Substance Abuse?
500
A bacteria that is the leading cause of bacterial meningitis as well as pneumonia, joint or bone infections and throat inflammations. Occurs most often in cildren during the first 5 years of life.
What is Hib?
500
Serious vital disease of the liver involving gradual loss of appetite, abdominal discomfort, nausea, and vomiting, joint pain and rash. Often jaundice (yellowish tint of eyes and skin) appears later.
What is Hepatitis B?
500
Indication through a blood test that one has been infected by the HIV virus, a virus that causes AIDS.