Important Terms
Diphtheria, piece of metal in a cornea, or contact lens associated red eye are all examples of...
What are acute diseases?
This is program within the FDA is where you report adverse events related to disease outbreaks.
What is Medwatch?
This was the leading cause of death in 1900
What is Pneumonia/Influenza?
Largest and longest running telephone survey in our country that takes a national sample of adults
BRFSS aka the Behavior Risk Factor Surveillance System
____% of work-related eye injuries can be prevented with _____.
What is 90% and safety eyewear?
This is the term for optimal health for all
What is health equity
A division of a larger federal agency that handles intramural and extramural research
What is the National Eye Institute (NEI)?
What is TV?
This form of information bias is a flaw of survey research that a researcher cannot get away from and has to do with the participants
What is recall bias?
The CDC attributes ___ of the 30 years of increased life expectancy in the 20th century to public health.
What is 25?
This term describes the symptoms and suffering caused by a disease
What is morbidity?
This organization protects the rights of consumers to obtaining a copy of their contact lens prescription at no cost
What is the Federal Trade Commission (FTC)?
This prospective study of adults is funded by the NEI and has contributed evidence to support cigarette smoking is associated with cataract and AMD
Observed level of a particular disease that is usually present in a community and is considered the baseline.
What is an endemic level?
331.9 Million
What is the number of people living in the U.S.?
The 5 areas of a person's life that impact their quality of life and health outcomes. *Name all 5
What are the SDOH?
Education Access and Quality
Economic Stability
Healthcare Access and Quality
Social and Community Context
Neighborhood and Built Environment
This organization published the most comprehensive vision-related public health report in 2016.
What is the National Academies of Science Engineering and Medicine (NASEM)?
___% of vision impairment can be corrected with glasses/visual correction.
What is ~80%?
This is a set of data that comes from ophthalmological health records and is included on the VEHSS.
What is the (Intelligent Research in Sight) IRIS registry?
The term for when a researcher concludes that a finding is significant when it really is not.
What is a false positive, type I, or alpha error?
Improving health by targeting behaviors in social and physical environments
What is primordial prevention?
A vision database that is comprised of EHR registries, insurance claims, survey results, and examination based studies
What is the VEHSS (Vision and Eye Health Surveillance System)?
A research study in which one or more human subjects are prospectively assigned to one or more interventions to evaluate the effects of those interventions on health‐related biomedical or behavioral outcomes.
What is a clinical trial?
2015 BRFSS data tells us that people who have difficulty seeing also have ____ compared to those without difficulty seeing.
What are
-More physically unhealthy days in a month
-a dx of diabetes
-a dx of arthritis
-difficulty with mobility (walking or climbing)?
$____ is the 2023 Federal Poverty Level household income for a family of 4.
What is $30,000?