Public Health History
This was the most significant milestone in public health history.
What is the eradication of smallpox?
Condoms, PPE, isolation and quarantine are examples of _____, used to address the burden of communicable diseases.
What is barrier protection?
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 number of people that a single infected person can be expected to transmit a disease to.
What is R naught?
Employment and income, housing stability, food security and access to nutritious foods, childcare, transportation, etc.
What is economic stability?
A point at which events are slowed, presenting obstacles to the success of an intervention.
What is a bottleneck?
The purpose and legal basis for public health surveillance is granted by which U.S. document?
What is the U.S. Constitution?
Which major pandemic was caused by disease spread from rats to humans through the bites of infected fleas?
What is the Black Death/Bubonic Plague
The time when an infected individual can transmit a disease to others. This period can start before symptoms appear and extend beyond the peak of illness.
What is infectious period?
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?
Health promotion activities, lifestyle modification, medication management, patient education, community-based interventions and psychosocial interventions.
What are intervention strategies for NCDs?
Access to healthy and affordable foods, quality of air and water, safe places to exercise, access to services, neighborhood safety, etc.
What is neighborhood and built environment?
An interacting group of items forming a unified whole.
What is a system?
This type of epidemiological study compares individuals with a disease to those without, looking for potential risk factors.
What is a case control study?
The name of the ancient practice for inoculating healthy individuals with material from smallpox sores.
What is variolation?
The 4 biggest risk factors for non-communicable diseases.
What is smoking, physical inactivity, poor nutrition, and excessive alcohol consumption?
Social support networks, community cohesion and belonging, workplace conditions, discrimination and inequality, incarceration rates, etc.
What is social and community context?
Immunizations, CD surveillance and control, inspection and licensing of restaurants, EH surveillance, screening programs, tobacco control, emergency preparedness.
What is the roles of local public health agencies?
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?