Public Health Potpourri
This public health practice protects people and communities by preventing many infectious diseases before exposure occurs
What are immunizations?
We classify this client with 4 quick letters after we attempt to call, send text message/email, send Call me letter, and home visit
What is LTFU?
This workforce risk occurs when individuals experience ongoing emergency demand, surges and uncertainty and was seen in many Public Health staff post COVID 19 pandemic
What is burnout?
The COVID pandemic highlighted the efficiency of this working location option which helped with work/life balance and saving on gas
What is WFH?
This "support" item is often the unofficial fuel or boost to survive early-morning clinics and/or meetings
What is coffee or your go-to beverage?
Meeting a young patient named Henry in Sierra Leone inspired this best-selling book that sparked attention on tuberculosis in our present time
What is “Everything is Tuberculosis?”
The person meets clinical and/or epidemiological criteria for assessment of a possible disease before the diagnosis is confirmed using 3 letters
What is PUI?
This public health change reduced outbreaks of VPD (vaccine preventable diseases) by making routine vaccines available through school, primary care and public health clinics
What is the expansion of routine immunization?
Technology resources expanded to allow this convenient way to deliver health services in a client’s home while the staff person could be elsewhere
What are video/virtual appointments?
In Ontario, this term refers to a disease designated under legislation for which reporting to public health is required
What is a disease of public health significance?
This Ontario legislation provides key legal authority for reporting and managing diseases of public health significance
What is the Health Protection and Promotion Act (HPPA)?
This Ontario Framework sets minimum requirements for programs and services delivered by Boards of Health and is 4 letters long
What is OPHS?
This ongoing public health failure reflects the lasting health impacts of colonial policies and anti-Indigenous racism, including inequitable access to culturally safe care, services and the conditions needed for good health
What is failure to address the health effects of colonialism and anti-Indigenous racism?
This strategy provides access to vaccines in communities in the Region of Waterloo where transportation may be less than optimal
What is the neighbourhood bus?
This prevention-focused field examines how health outcomes differ across groups and works to reduce unfair and avoidable differences
What is health equity?
In 1996, this HIV treatment milestone medication regime transformed HIV from a frequently fatal infection into a manageable chronic condition for many people
What is antiretroviral therapy?
This national committee develops evidence-based recommendations on vaccine use in Canada and is 4 letters long
What is NACI?
This global public health change combined effective multi-drug antibiotics with supported treatment completion to cure active TB, reduce transmission, build therapeutic rapport and prevent drug resistance
What is DOT for TB? (directly observed therapy)
This outbreak in 1997-1998 led to an amazing department-wide collaborative response of about 100,000 vaccines delivered over the Christmas holidays
What is a meningococcal meningitis OB?
This Ontario government service manages the distribution of publicly funded vaccines, drugs, and medical supplies to authorized health care providers
What is the Ontario Government Pharmaceutical and Medical Supply Service (OGPMSS)?
This public health approach recognizes that factors such as income, housing, education, social inclusion and access to services strongly influences health outcomes
What are the social determinants of health?
This lab is where many infectious diseases samples are sent to be tested in Ontario and is not LifeLabs, Dynacare or Public Health departments
What is PHOL?
This new publicly funded vaccine was in response to surveillance data showing changing strains of meningococcal offered to children?
What is MenQuadfi? (Men-C-ACYW)
Although initially disliked by staff, once it became part of everyday practice, this tool/record has created an efficient and secure way to manage a client's health record
What is the electronic medical record (EMR)?
This is the standard temperature range for storing most publicly funded vaccines in a refrigerator
What is 2°C to 8°C?