Public Health
The three core functions of public health.
What is Assessment, Policy development, Assurance?
The leading cause of death in the United States.
What is heart disease?
Occurrence of a disease clearly in excess of normal expectancy.
What is epidemic?
Expresses the probability that the observed result could have occurred by chance alone.
What is p-value?
All states have.
What is laws?
Public health's approach to health problems in a community.
1. Define health problem, 2. Identify risk factors, 3. Develop and test community-level interventions, 4. Implement interventions, 5. Monitor interventions
The proportion of deaths to population.
What is mortality?
An illness caused by an infectious agent that can be transmitted from one person to another.
What is Communicable disease?
Statistics applied to the analysis of biological and medical data.
What is Biostatistics?
The Amendment to the U.S. Constitution that gives states authority to protect the health, safety, and welfare of their citizens.
What is 10Th Amendment?
The third level of prevention.
What is Tertiary prevention?
The sixth dimension of health.
What is Environmental Health?
Occurrence of an illness or illnesses in a population.
What is Morbidity?
At the federal level, the primary agency that collects, analyzes, and reports data on the health of Americans.
What is the National Center for Health Statistics?
Social Security Amendment of 1965.
What is Medicare?
Predominant agencies involved in public health.
What is the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, National Institutes of Health, and Food and Drug Administration?
Influences health disparities in America.
What social determinants of health?
A study that compares individuals who have a disease with individuals who do not have the disease.
What is Case-control study?
A federal agency that collects and provides data about the United States geographical distribution of the population, economy, and places.
What is U.S. Census Bureau?
Federal government program that provides food benefits to qualifying low-income families.
What is Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program?
The national objectives for states and local communities.
What is Healthy People 2030?
Stress that presents opportunities for personal growth.
What is eustress?
The gold standard in epidemiology.
What is Randomized Controlled Trial?
A measure of the impact of disease or injury in a population.
What is Years of Potential Life Lost?
In Florida, 41 college and university campuses have policies to protect health of students and the environment.
What is Smoke and Tobacco free?