PH History
This was the most significant milestone in public health history.
What is the eradication of smallpox?
The science and practice of promoting and protecting the health of populations.
What is public health?
Level of education attained, and quality of education received.
What is education access and quality?
Assessment, policy development, and assurance are the _____ of public health.
What is the 3 core functions?
The ongoing, systematic collection, analysis, and interpretation of health-related data.
What is public health surveillance?
Who was the "father of epidemiology"?
What is John Snow?
The characteristics, events, or exposures that influence the occurrence, distribution, and spread of health conditions and diseases within a population.
What is factor?
Employment and income, housing stability, food security and access to nutritious foods, childcare, transportation, etc.
What is economic stability?
The central public health agency of the federal government.
What is the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS)?
The purpose and legal basis for public health surveillance is granted by which U.S. document?
What is the U.S. Constitution?
The book "The Jungle" led to the passage of this Act to ensure better meat processing.
What is the Meat Inspection Act?
Number of cases occurring during a specific period; always dependent on the size of the population during that period.
What is rate?
Health insurance coverage, primary care access, regular doctor visits, health literacy, access to medical records, etc.
What is healthcare access and quality?
What is the framework for public health?
What is the 10 essential public health services?
An epidemiologist is doing a study on the sleep patterns of college students but does not provide any intervention. What type of study is this?
What is an observational study?
Public outcry leading to stronger ethical guidelines in research was the direct outcome of which experiment?
What is the Tuskegee Experiment?
Two or more linked cases of the same illness or the situation where the observed number of cases exceeds the expected number, or a single case of disease caused by a significant pathogen.
What is an outbreak?
Access to health and affordable foods, quality of air and water, safe places to exercise, access to services, neighborhood safety, etc.
What is neighborhood and built environment?
Public health takes an upstream or _____ approach to addressing the root causes and social conditions that contribute to health problems, rather than simply treating the problem after it occurs.
What is preventative?
Establishing the existence of an outbreak, preparing for fieldwork, verifying the diagnosis, defining and identifying cases, using descriptive hypotheses, developing hypotheses, evaluating the hypotheses, refining the hypotheses, implementing control and prevention measures, communicating findings.
What are the steps in an outbreak investigation?
The Love Canal led to the creation of this Act (law) requiring polluters to be accountable for dumping toxins and for cleaning up their toxic waste.
What is the Comprehensive Environmental Response, Compensation, and Liability Act (CERCLA) or the Superfund Program?
Differences in the distribution of disease, illness, and death that are systematic, unjust, actionable and associated with imbalances in political power.
What is health inequity?
Social support networks, community cohesion and belonging, workplace conditions, discrimination and inequality, incarceration rates, etc.
What is social and community context?
Persons experiencing homelessness, eldery, infants, immunocompromised, are all examples of what?
What is a vulnerable population?
In data interpretation, by identifying the ______, ______ and ______, you can more easily determine how and why the health event occurred.
What is person, place, and time?