Public Health 101
This field focuses on improving the health of entire populations rather than individual patients.
What is Public Health?
This undergraduate degree serves as an introduction to public health.
What is the Bachelor of Science in Public Health (BSPH)?
This public health professional analyzes health data and statistics.
What is a biostatistician?
This chronic disease is characterized by elevated blood glucose levels.
What is diabetes?
Hurricanes can affect public health by disrupting healthcare, housing, and access to this essential resource.
What is clean water?
This profession investigates disease outbreaks and is often called the "disease detective."
What is an epidemiologist?
This program uses statistical methods and data analysis to solve health problems.
What is Biostatistics & Data Science?
This public health field studies how environmental exposures affect human health.
What is environmental health?
Tobacco use is a major risk factor for this group of diseases.
What is cancer?
This environmental event prompted extensive public health research along the Gulf Coast.
What is the Deepwater Horizon oil spill?
These are the five factors that commonly influence health outcomes: economic stability, education, healthcare access, neighborhood environment, and social/community context.
What are the social determinants of health?
This program studies disease patterns, causes, and prevention in populations.
What is Epidemiology & Population Health?
Public health professionals often work in government agencies such as this federal agency headquartered in Atlanta.
What is the CDC?
Obesity, inactivity, and poor nutrition increase the risk of this cardiovascular event.
What is a heart attack?
Louisiana public health agencies often focus on reducing disparities in health outcomes among populations.
What are health inequities?
The goal of this is to stop disease before it starts.
What is prevention?
This program addresses environmental risks, sustainability, and climate-related health issues.
What is Environmental Health, Climate and Sustainability?
This degree is commonly considered the flagship professional degree in public health.
What is an MPH?
This mosquito-borne illness has periodically affected Louisiana.
What is West Nile Virus?
Heat-related illness risk is expected to increase because of this global environmental challenge.
What is climate change?
This concept refers to the protection provided when enough people in a population are immune to a disease.
What is herd immunity?
LSUHSC-NO SPH offers this professional graduate degree across its academic programs.
What is the Master of Public Health (MPH)?
What are two sectors public health careers can be found?
Public health careers can be found in government, healthcare, nonprofits, academia, and private sectors.
Public health professionals study and respond to these unexpected increases in disease occurrence.
What are outbreaks?
Community resilience refers to a population's ability to prepare for, respond to, and recover from these events.
What are disasters or emergencies?