Health in the Social Context
The state in which everyone has a fair and just opportunity to attain their highest level of health.
What is health equity?
These two simple and common household items can prevent many communicable diseases.
What is soap and water?
In 1983, this mysterious and fatal new immune-system virus was first found in a lymph node biopsy.
What is HIV-1?
PHAB
What is the Public Health Accreditation Board?
This motor vehicle feature has mandatory use by Missouri law since 1985.
What are seat belts?
Preventable differences in the burden of disease, injury, violence, or opportunities to achieve optimal health that are experienced by socially disadvantaged populations.
What are health disparities?
This shape includes "host", "agent", and "environment".
What is the epidemiological triangle?
The month and year of the first positive COVID-19 test in Missouri.
What is March 2020?
MAPP
What is Mobilizing for Action through Planning and Partnerships?
This leading cause of preventable disease has seen dramatic decrease in usage rates in the United States from 42.6% in 1965 to 12.5% in 2020.
What is smoking cigarettes?
The non-medical factors that influence health outcomes; the conditions which people are born, grow, work, live, and age, and the wider set of forces and systems shaping the conditions of daily life.
What are the social determinants of health?
When a disease is spread from a mother to her child in utero, shortly after birth, or from breastfeeding.
What is vertical transmission?
In 1918 this pandemic disease was first documented in Fort Riley, Kansas.
What is the Spanish Flu/ 1918 flu pandemic?
BRFFS
What is Behavioral Risk Factor Surveillance System?
The first disease to be eradicated through routine vaccinations.
What is smallpox?
This socially created health factor is described as the physical parts of where we live, work, and play, including the design and layout of communities.
What is built environment?
In this disease, virus cells fuse with helper t-cells to make copies of itself.
What is HIV?
In July of 1946 this institution was founded in Atlanta, Georgia.
What is the CDC?
COOP
What is Continuity of Operations Plan?
In 2021 the CDC declared this systemic social issue as a serious public health threat.
What is racism?
“Liquid” interventions and prevention strategies aimed at the root causes of health disparities that utilize changes in policy, social structures, and economic factors, and other systems to improve the health of whole populations
What are upstream interventions?
This very rare bacterial disease is often caused by ticks from rodents and rabbits, has caused lawn-mowing to be considered a vector of disease, and is considered a viable bioweapon. In the United States, it is most frequently found in Missouri and Arkansas.
What is Tularemia/ Rabbit Fever?
Every Monday before Thanksgiving, this day is celebrated.
What is Public Health Appreciation Day?
NACCHO
what is the National Association of County and City Health Officials?
This disease spread by parasites in mosquitoes was once endemic to the United States but now only causes 5 deaths per year domestically.
What is malaria?