High-Risk Populations
Health Agencies
Vocabulary
Public Health Policies
Public Health Concerns in the U.S.
100
A group of people who have an increased chance of getting a disease.
What is a high-risk population?
100
The organization that ensures the food and medicines we consume are healthy, safe, and effective.
What is the FDA?
100
The practice of protecting and improving the health of people in a community.
What is public health?
100
Mass immunization have contributed to the elimination of what disease?
What are polio and smallpox?
100
These diseases affect the respiratory system.
What are respiratory disease?
200
The practice of providing sewage disposal and treatment, solid waste disposal, clean working and living conditions, and clean drinking water.
What is sanitation?
200
What organization monitors emerging infections and administers childhood immunizations around the world?
What is WHO?
200
An unexpected increase in illness.
What is an outbreak?
200
An agency that sets safety standards in the workplace.
What is OSHA?
200
These diseases involve the cardiovascular system (the heart, blood vessels, etc.).
What are cardiovascular diseases?
300
This makes it difficult for the body to fight disease.
What is poor nutrition?
300
Name the organization that works with state departments to monitor health trends, control epidemics, and detect health problems.
What is the CDC?
300
The occurrence of more cases of disease than expected.
What is an epidemic?
300
All states require children to be what before they can attend school?
What is immunized?
300
The loss of brain function as a result of a disturbance in the blood supply to the brain.
What is a stroke?
400
What is the condition in which there are too many people living in an area to live healthily?
What is overcrowding?
400
What organization assists children with education, nutrition, healthcare, and sanitation?
What is UNICEF?
400
Diseases that are caused partly by unhealthy behaviors and partly by other factors.
What are lifestyle diseases?
400
Laws regulating waste disposal and dumping prevent the increase in what animal populations?
What are rats, insects, and mice?
400
Abnormal cell growth that can negatively affect the body.
What is cancer?
500
What can control the spread of many disease?
What is immunization?
500
Name the organization that directs and promotes research on the prevention, treatment, and diagnosis of disease.
What is NIH?
500
A set of health objectives established by the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services.
What is Healthy People 2010?
500
To practice medicine in the United States, doctors must have this.
What is a license?
500
Something that health agencies try to prevent.
What is the spread of infectious disease?
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