Public Health Organizations
This organization serves the American public who rely on accurate data, health guidance, and preventive measures.
What are the U.S. Centers for Disease Control (CDC)?
This English physician investigated folklore regarding milkmaids being immune to smallpox. His research on cowpox led to the first inoculation against the smallpox virus.
Who is Edward Jenner?
This intestinal bacterial infection causes severe, watery diarrhea, vomiting, and rapid dehydration, and has grown infamous due to outbreaks such as the 1854 Broad Street Outbreak in London.
What is Cholera?
This is the science of protecting and improving the health of people and their communities.
What is Public Health?
This ancient Mesopotamian text contained rules for medical conduct and set the legal groundwork for the practice of medicine.
What is Hummurabi's Code?
An American organization whose mission is to seek fundamental knowledge about the nature and behavior of living systems and the application of that knowledge to enhance health, lengthen life, and reduce illness and disability.
What are the National Institutes on Health?
This 19th-century English physician is considered one of the fathers of modern epidemiology and identified the source of the 1854 Broad Street Cholera Outbreak.
Who is John Snow
This chronic disease is characterized by excess body fat and marked by a Body Mass Index (BMI) over 30.
What is obesity?
This has been called the "basic science" of pubic health or the study of epidemics.
What is epidemiology?
This Hebrew text advocated for the prevention of disease through regulating personal and community hygiene, reproductive health, and the isolation of unclean conditions.
What are the Five Books of Moses
An American organization founded in 1970 whose mission is to protect human health and the environment.
What is the Environmental Protection Agency?
This author wrote the 1962 book Silent Spring which played a critical role in the formation of the EPA.
Who is Rachel Carson?
This viral infection mainly affects children under five years of age, but has decreased significantly in incidence since the introduction of the first vaccine in 1952 by Jonas Salk.
What is Polio?
Assessment, policy development and assurance
What are the three core fucntions of public health?
This man was Rome's leading physician and based his own writings and teachings on those of Hippocrates.
Who is Galen?
This American public health organization provides membership and advocacy for public health professionals within the United States
What is the American Public Health Association?
This 16th-century Dutch spectacle maker and his father created the first compound microscope.
Who is Zacharias Janson?
This chronic disease is the current leading cause of death in the United States
What is cardiovascular disease?
This is the study of how physical, chemical, and biological factors in the environment can affect human health and well-being.
What is environmental health?
This medieval plague was due to an infection of Yersinia pestis transmitted by fleas on rats brought from Central Asia to Europe by way of the Mongol invasions.
What is the Black Death?
A global public health organization that serves as the directing and coordinating authority on international health matters
What is the World Health Organization?
This British physician serving in the Royal Navy developed a cure for scurvy based on dietary regimens while aboard HMS Salisbury in 1747.
Who is James Lind?
This is the first and only human infectious disease to be eradicated by vaccine.
What is smallpox?
These are factors that influence health outcomes, for example access to quality education, economic stability, physical environment, healthcare access, and social and community context.
What are determinants of health?
This was the first major legislative act in the world, in response to poor sanitation and health crises caused by the Industrial Revolution in the United Kingdom.
What is the Public Health Act of 1848?