Public Health History
What Chinese invention played an early role in improving sanitation and hygiene?
What are "Chopsticks"?
This colorful two-word plague occurred in Afro-Eurasia from 1346 to 1353. The mass graves inspired people to take more preventative measures to prevent disease casualties.
What is "Black Death"?
What is the leading cause of death in the U.S.?
What is "heart disease"?
According to an iconic 1989 political poster to raise awareness of the public health menace of AIDS,
"Silence = " _____"
What is "Death"?
As wealth disparity increased what happened to the health of the nation?
What is it "Decreased"?
Hansen’s disease is more commonly known by which name that’s associated with the places (“colonies”) where people were once sent to live if they were infected with the illness?
What is "Leprosy"?
In 1993, an E. coli outbreak infected more than 700 people and killed four children in California, Idaho, Washington, and Nevada after they ate “so good it’s scary!” Monster Burgers from this chain restaurant.
What is "Jack in the Box"?
The PHEP and HPP grants are not actually grants...
what are they?
What is a "Cooperative Agreement"?
COVID-19 revived a near obsolete Drinker Tank, popular polio-era negative pressure ventilators better known by this metallic name.
What is an "Iron Lung"?
Systematic plausibly avoidable differences in health related to differing social conditions across society.
What is "Disparity"?
This important public health contribution was introduced during the middle-ages.
What is "Quarantine"?
This toxic element causes the neurological disorder that inspired the Alice in Wonderland character, the Mad Hatter?
What is "Mercury"?
Which disease has been completely eradicated?
What is "smallpox."?
"Earkeckers" are an outdated term for this body part, which is typically only discussed when the site of swelling and a removal procedure.r.
What is "Tonsils"?
Income education and professional status define this concept.
What is the "Socioeconomic Status"?
On the crest of the United States Public Health Service Commissioned Corps is a caduceus crossed with what nautical symbol?
What is an "Anchor"?
A health-related word evolved from a Middle English term describing the venom of a snake which came from a Latin word meaning "slimy liquid or poison."
What is a "virus"?
An awarding office’s formally issued announcement of the availability of Federal funding through one of its financial assistance programs. The announcement invites applications and provides such information as eligibility and evaluation criteria, funding preferences/priorities, how to obtain application kits, and the submission deadline.
What is "Notice of Funding Opportunity" (NOFO)?
Microbiologists were hired by Warner Bros. Pictures Canada to create a billboard made of growing bacteria in Petri dishes, which spelled the name of what 2011 pandemic-themed movie directed by Steven Soderbergh?
What is the movie "Contagion"?
Resources available within communities resulting from interactions within families, workplaces, neighborhoods, civic affairs etc. (results from mutual support, reciprocity, trust and obligation of network interaction).
What is "Social Capital"?
Established in 1871 and first held by John M. Woodworth, this federal government official is the leading spokesperson for public health matters in the United States?
What is the "Surgeon General"?
On May 8, 1980, the World Health Organization officially declared that "the world and all its peoples have won freedom from" this deadly infectious disease
What is "Tuberculosis"?
Research and non-research public health programs that advance the agency’s public health mission domestically and abroad to keep Americans safe and healthy where they work, live and play.
What types of programs do CDC Grants fund?
An attempt to improve public health by creating a cancer-curing virus instead wiped out most of mankind prior to the events of this 2007 post-apocalyptic Will Smith film.
What is "I am legend"?
This measure indicated level of economic inequality in a population.
What is the "GINI Index"?