Public Health Practice
The art and science of maintaining, protecting and prolonging the health of the people through organized community effort.
What is Public Health.
Examples of this type of foodborne contamination hazard might include shards of glass, cosmetic items, thumb tacks or metal filings.
What is Physical Contamination.
The contents of this object, which facilitates anaerobic digestion of bacteria, include solids, liquids and scum.
What is a Septic Tank.
There are three types of this biologic agent, which can cause skin ulcers known as eschars and was responsible for a significant domestic bioterrorism event in this country.
What is Anthrax.
Effects of this substance, particularly when children are exposed, can include delay or complications in neurological, behavioral and physiological development.
What is Lead.
This is defined as an administrative and service unit of state or local government, and New Jersey has about 104 of them.
What is a Local Health Department.
This food friendly critter is known for characteristics like its blunt snout, small ears and muscular body.
What is a Norway Rat.
Consumption, agriculture, industry and consumption serve as examples of this.
What is Water Use.
The spread of a bioterrorism agent in a way that is lethal to one person or an isolated location, is typically referred to as this means of dispersion.
What is Point Source Dissemination.
This risk to indoor environments, especially living spaces below ground level, is the number two cause of lung cancer but may easily be identified using a short-term test with a charcoal canister.
What is Radon.
The five core areas of this public health regulation include administration, environmental health, communicable disease, maternal and child health, and adult health/chronic illness services.
What are the Minimum Standards.
This foodborne pathogen has an incubation period of two to eight days, has been found in ground beef and unpasteurized dairy products, and can cause bloody diarrhea.
What is E. coli 0157:H7.
This pathogen, producing perhaps the most common global waterborne disease, causes watery stool, vomiting and, among those who are most vulnerable, possible kidney failure or death.
What is Cholera.
This biologic agent, which was deliberately inflicted on native Americans centuries ago, is one of the only significant bioterrorism risks spread via a contagion.
What is Smallpox.
The cause of this environmental issue is the release of carbon dioxide, methane and oxides of nitrogen into the atmosphere, and the United States is responsible for approximately 20% of these emissions.
What is Global Warming.
Once a bill is passed by the State Legislature, it is published as a ________ before being written as a code (or regulation) for implementation and enforcement.
What is a Statute.
This may be achieved with a three-compartment sink or by using water of 180 degrees Fahrenheit.
What is Sanitization.
This is the first necessary step in the construction or alteration of a septic system, and includes examination of structure and texture, and the presence of groundwater.
What is Soil and Site Evaluation (soil log is acceptable).
To ________ a biologic agent, one would have to procure a virulent strain, culture large amounts in a suitable form and safely disseminate it.
What is to Weaponize the agent.
Primary prevention of elevated blood lead in children involves this type of testing.
What is Testing of a Home, prior to occupancy.
The executive director of a health department, who serves as a link to local, state and sometimes federal agencies, and who oversees the activities of a health department.
What is a Health Officer.
This foodborne pathogen has a very short incubation period, has been linked to custards and cold salads, and has been associated with a lack of adequate handwashing.
What is Staphylococcus Aureus.
Outbreaks of this disease, which counts humans and beavers as its main reservoir, has been associated with poor sanitation, childcare centers and shallow wells.
The name of this particularly versatile bioterrorism agent is derived from Greek and means 'coal.'
What is Anthrax.
This is caused by emissions from both mobile and stationary sources, and can be damaging to aquatic life and vegetation at higher elevations.
What is Acid Rain and Deposition.