The Feds
States of health
Local Yokels
NGOs Know
Wildcard
100
This branch of federal government houses the Department of Health and Human Services
What is the Executive Branch?
100
This state agency performs tests for metabolic disorders in newborn infants.
What is the public health laboratory (or the laboratory services bureau)?
100
Together with state health departments, these 2,565 agencies retain the primary responsibility for health under the U.S. constitution
What are local health departments?
100
Part of the U.S. National Academies, this nonprofit's purpose is to provide national advice on issues relating to biomedical science, medicine, and health.
What is the Institute of Medicine?
100
This federal agency houses the Food Safety and Inspection Service (FSIS), which is responsible for ensuring that the nation's commercial supply of meat, poultry, and egg products is safe, wholesome, and correctly labeled and packaged.
What is the U.S. Department of Agriculture?
200
The agency whose acronym is SAMHSA
What is the Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration?
200
This state program establishes which conditions are notifiable by health care providers and facilities.
What is the communicable disease epidemiology program?
200
These local health department employees enforce food safety standards.
What are sanitarians?
200
This nonprofit develops case definitions for nationally notifiable conditions.
What is the Council of State and Territorial Epidemiologists?
200
Even if you have a tattooing license, you may not remove a tattoo unless you are licensed by this Montana state agency.
What is the Montana Board of Medical Examiners?
300
The Office for State, Tribal, Local and Territorial Support is housed within this agency.
What is the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention?
300
The three letter acronym for the Special Supplemental Nutrition Program for Women, Infants and Children.
What is WIC?
300
A legally designated body whose role is to protect and promote the health of its community by providing oversight to the local health department
What is a local board of health?
300
This organization represents schools and programs that have been accredited by the Council on Education for Public Health (CEPH).
What is the Association of Schools and Programs of Public Health?
300
Health care provided by this agency is obligated by hundreds of treaties ceding of most of the land in the US.
What is the Indian Health Service?
400
The agency that gives out maternal and child health block grants, and funds regional public health training centers.
What is the Health Resources and Services Administration (HRSA)?
400
This agency helps prevent waterborne illness by certifying pool and spa operators.
What is Food and Consumer Safety Services?
400
In many jurisdictions, the local health department provides treatment for this ancient infectious disease, often using directly observed therapy to ensure adherence to treatment plans.
What is tuberculosis?
400
Local health departments may apply to this nonprofit to become accredited.
What is the Public Health Accreditation Board (PHAB)?
400
A candidate for this office, Vivek Murthy, created a political controversy by stating that guns are a public health issue.
Who is the Surgeon General?
500
This agency awards "State Innovation Model" grants to stimulate health care reform.
What is the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services Innovation Center?
500
This Montana state agency maintains and distributes data from BRFSS, vital statistics, and hospital discharges.
What is the Office of Epidemiology and Scientific Support?
500
If medications were to run short during a public health emergency, local health departments would receive authorization to distribute medications from CDC from this supply.
What is the Strategic National Stockpile?
500
This foundation's newest initiative is to build a new "culture of health" in America.
What is the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation?
500
The Medicare and Medicaid Electronic Health Record Incentive Programs provide financial incentives for this.
What is Meaningful Use?
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