Public Health Peeps
He's known as the father of medicine.
Who is "Hippocrates"
When this disease first emerged in the early ‘80s, the major risk groups were known as the 4 H’s (heroin users, Haitians, homosexuals and hemophiliacs).
What is "HIV/AIDS"?
This law sparked debate between policymakers and religious leaders due to the so-called “birth control mandate”.
What is "Obamacare/Affordable Care Act"?
Inactivity & poor eating habits put individuals at risk for this leading cause of death in the U.S.
What is "high blood pressure, hypertension"?
Populations with barriers to the health care system including the uninsured, the underinsured, and socially disadvantaged people.
What are "Vulnerable Populations"?
He's known as the father of epidemiology because of his work mapping cholera outbreaks in London.
Who is "John Snow"?
Frighteningly, both drug resistant & extremely drug - resistant strains of this infectious disease have been identified.
What is "Tuberculosis"?
This epidemic receives EPIC AMOUNTS of media attention, perhaps because it relates to our not-so-healthy cultural obsession with a certain body tissue...
What is the "Obesity Epidemic"?
This “condition” could be called a leading risk factor for a large number of health problems - including obesity, diabetes, and asthma.
What is "Poverty"?
Diseases that are usually transmitted through person-to-person contact or shared use of contaminated instruments/materials.
What is a "Communicable Disease"?
This American founded the American Red Cross (and has a school in Minneapolis named after her).
Who is "Clara Barton"?
This tiny creature is responsible for sleeping sickness - a disease endemic to Sub-Saharan Africa.
What is the "Tse-Tse Fly"?
These public health measures have received bad press in recent decades, due to a now-debunked study that linked them autism.
What are "VACCINES/IMMUNIZATIONS"?
Binge drinking is a persistent problem, especially on college campuses - binge drinking is defined as having this number of drinks in a sitting.
What is "four for women, five for men?"
Enough alcohol to raise BAC level to >.08%
This term represents the incidence or prevalence of a disease in a population.
What is "Morbidity"?
The founder of modern nursing, she got her start tending wounded soldiers during the Crimean war.
Who is "Florence Nightingale"?
in the early 1900s, the spread of this infectious disease was attributed to an Irish cook, after several of her employers fell ill. the cook was perfectly healthy; but died in quarantine in 1838.
What is "Typhoid"?
In February 2021, it was revealed that what governor had lied about the number of COVID-19 deaths in New York nursing homes, not long after publishing a book subtitled "Leadership Lessons from the COVID-19 Pandemic?"
Who is "Andrew Cuomo"?
A recent study linked this risky behavior to slowed or impaired bone growth in young women - this activity was also associated with higher rates of depression.
What is "Smoking"?
A state of complete physical, mental, and social well-being, and not merely the absence of disease or infirmity.
What is "Health"?
In 1928, was the first to demonstrate the antibacterial properties of penecillin.
Who is "Sir Alexander Fleming"?
After controversially having herself and her son Paul inoculated in 1768, Catherine the Great supported the idea of a widespread inoculation campaign throughout the Russian Empire against which disease?
What is "Smallpox"?
Several public health workers were recently killed in Pakistan, effectively ending a campaign to prevent this disease - once a major issue in the U.S. but now only endemic in Afghanistan, Nigeria, and Pakistan.
What is "Polio"?
It may seem benign, but studies suggest this very common activity WILL KILL YOU - or at least significantly raise your risk of health problems.
What is "Sitting"?
When the occurrence of a disease exceeds the normal rate.
What is an "Epidemic?"