Public Health
While doctors focus on treating those who are sick, public health has a broader focus.
What is prevention?
This area of science emphasizes fruits, vegetables, whole grains, and fat-free or low-fat milk products
What is healthy nutrition?
Individuals who act as the disease detectives to identify the cause of an illness.
What is an epidemiologist?
An epidemic in 2019 quickly became a pandemic.
What is COVID-19?
This public health challenge can be overcome with proper nutrition and physical activity
What is obesity?
This part of science focuses on promoting the health of people and the communities where they live.
What is public health?
The part of the US government that promotes healthy nutrition for all.
What is the USDA?
When a disease occurs more often than expected in a community.
What is an epidemic?
The term describes any disease or infection which is transmitted from animals to humans.
What is Zoonosis?
The prevention of smoking within 25 feet of public buildings and within confined spaces is associated with a decrease in this illness?
What is lung cancer?
The process of enabling people to increase control over and improve their health.
What is health promotion?
A nutritional program that provides an easy-to-follow food guide to help parents figure out how to feed their kids nutritious balanced meals.
What is MyPlate?
When a critical portion of a community is immunized against a contagious disease where most people are protected from the disease.
What is herd immunity or community immunity?
This disease killed 2 million people every year worldwide and was completely eradicated globally in the 1970s by a massive immunization program.
What is smallpox?
Education, engineering modifications, and enforcement of policies by public health officials which keep the population safe.
What is injury prevention?
Public health programs that target specific populations
What is a high-risk population group?
Communities within large cities or in rural and underserved areas without access to nutritious food.
What is a food desert?
When Epidemiologists track an outbreak of a disease to determine when the occurrence has reached its peak.
What is the Epidemiological Curve?
The name of a theory that explains how disease causes illness.
What is the germ theory?
The leading cause of death in youth between the ages of 15-19 years.
What are unintentional injuries?
The primary public health agency in the United States charged with protecting people relevant to health, safety, and security threats.
What is the CDC?
Public Health personnel who focus on nutrition promotion and healthy eating habits
What is a nutritionist?
An epidemiologist's model to visualize the spread of disease includes the external agent, host, and environment.
What is the epidemiologic triangle?
Outbreaks of communicable diseases such as measles, mumps, and rubella can be prevented.
What are immunizations?
The 2022 focus for National Public Health Week.
Where is Public Health?