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An international organization that is responsible for increasing government attention and response to population health issues
What is the World Health Organization?
Three's a charm with this population health model that was originally designed to conceptualize determinants of infectious disease risk as including the agent, host, and environment.
What is the Epidemiological Triad?
A subset of data meant to draw inferences about a larger population?
What is a Sample?
The field of study that examines the intersection of biological health and culture.
What is medical anthropology?
By what man in 1865 was Lehigh University founded?
Who is Asa Packer?
An area of research that examines government-private industry relations, food policy, and population health outcomes
What are the commercial determinants of health?
Originally developed in the 1970s by Bronfenbrenner, this population health model has been widely used in a variety of social science disciplines. It demonstrates the interrelationships between individual, interpersonal, community, and systems-level determinants of health.
What is the Socio-ecological Framework?
A branch of statistics focused on making predictions of the future based on past data
What is forecasting?
A folk illness with psychiatric and/or somatic symptoms recognized only in specific cultures.
What is a CBS (culture bound syndrome)?
1958 graduate Dr. William Pierce led the development of this medical device
What is an artificial heart pump?
A process where federal governments assign health policy responsibility to the states
What is decentralization
Life goes on, and on, with this population health model that stems from the maternal and child health field. This approach conceptualizes health as a cumulative result of both risky and protective exposures that occur during pregnancy, childhood, adolescence, and adulthood, and even intergenerationally.
What is the Life Course Model/Approach?
The term for when the occurrence of one event does not change the probability of another event
What is statistical independance?
The first medicine, according to the Lakota
What is water or mni?
In what year did Lehigh become co-educational?
What is 1971?