Terms/Definitions
Health Determinants
Public Health History
Numbers
Miscellaneous
100
The science of protecting and improving the health of populations, through the promotion of healthy lifestyles and the prevention of disease and injury, in order to prolong life for all.
What is public health?
100
Jayden lives in a good neighborhood, with little to no pollution. Jayden was playing at the park when he got his first asthma attack.
What is family history/genetics?
100
Vaccination Motor vehicle safety Safer workplaces Control of infectious diseases Decline in deaths from coronary heart disease and stroke Safer, healthier food Healthier mothers and babies Family planning Fluoridation of drinking water Recognition of tobacco as a hazard
What are the 10 public health achievements?
100
40%
What is the impact of behavior?
100
Clinical professionals, like doctors and nurses, focus primarily on treating individuals after they become sick or injured.
What is downstream?
200
To completely rid the world of a disease.
What is eradication?
200
Mike bikes to school everyday, while his friends take the bus. He makes it a daily competition, to see who gets to school faster. (Mike usually wins.)
What is behavior?
200
A growth in _________ brought more and more people to cities in search of work. This led to overcrowding, poor sanitation and subsequent epidemics, there was a growing recognition of the nature of disease.
What is industrialization?
200
30%
What is the impact of family history/genetics?
200
The sticker campaign your capstone is based on.
What is the "This is Public Health" campaign?
300
The ____ nature of public health: to go to the source to solve public health problems.
What is upstream?
300
Haley is a 16 year old girl. She walks 3.5 miles to school everyday because she does not feel comfortable taking the MBTA.
What are social/economic factors?
300
46 states settled lawsuits in which they sought to recover ________-related health care costs and to hold the ________ companies accountable for decades of wrongdoing.
What is tobacco?
300
The year "the pill" was first approved for sale.
What is 1960?
300
What advertisements were shown in class to highlight Advertising/Marketing Theory?
What are the Always "#likeagirl" and Nike Football/Soccer advertisements?
400
When people feel that their freedom to choose an action is threatened, they get an unpleasant feeling. This also motivates them to perform the threatened behavior, thus proving that their free will has not been compromised
What is psychological reactance theory?
400
Janice is 23 and is a photographer who lives in the South End. One day, Janice arrives in the emergency room, after spending time at an old construction site for a week-long photo-shoot.
What is physical environment?
400
The person who wrote: "Whoever wishes to investigate medicine properly, should proceed thus: in the first place to consider the seasons of the year, and what effects each of them produces. We must also consider the qualities of the waters and the mode in which the inhabitants live, and what are their pursuits, whether they are fond of drinking and eating to excess, and given to indolence, or are fond of exercise and labor, and not given to excess in eating and drinking."
Who is Hippocrates?
400
Report declaring tobacco as a hazard is released.
What is 1964?
400
A figure highlighting the need to address public health from the bottom up. (Counseling and education is at the top of this thing, and socioeconomic factors at the bottom.)
What is the health impact pyramid?
500
Public health professionals try to prevent problems from happening or recurring through: ________ educational programs, ________ policies, and administering services and conducting research.
What is "implementing" and "recommending"?
500
Josephine's annual check-up is 8 months late. The nearest health center is 4.5 miles away and Josephine's family does not have a car.
What is health care access?
500
This act required food manufacturers to disclose the fat (saturated and unsaturated), cholesterol, sodium, sugar, fiber, protein and carbohydrate content in their products. This gave consumers new ways of monitoring their nutritional intake.
What is the Nutritional Labeling Education Act?
500
The year penicillin was discovered.
What is 1928?
500
Categories of this thing include: Public Policy, Community, Organizational, Interpersonal, Individual
What is the social-ecological model?
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