Its four main goals are to prevent disease and injury, teach people how to be healthy, provide basic health services, and to protect against environmental hazards.
What is Public Health?
100
An illness caused by a virus or bacteria that is transmitted to people by insects or arachnids like mosquitoes or ticks.
What is a vector-borne disease?
100
The process whereby a person is made immune or resistant to an infectious disease, typically by the administration of a vaccine.
What is immunization?
100
Typical symptoms of this illness include fever, headache, fatigue, and a characteristic bulls-eye skin rash called erythema migrans.
What is Lyme Disease?
100
Although some of these bacteria can cause illness, most of the bacteria in this group are harmless and are an important part of a healthy intestinal tract.
What is E. Coli?
200
Protecting healthy people from developing a disease or experiencing an injury in the first place is this kind of prevention.
What is primary?
200
Bacteria found in soil that gets into the body through a puncture, cut, or sore of the skin. A person can also be infected after a burn or an animal bite.
What is Tetanus?
200
This vaccine is administered starting at 11-12 years of age to protect adolescents and teens from a disease that affects the membranes covering the brain and spinal cord.
What is the Meningitis (Meningococcal) vaccine?
200
This illness gradually damages the air sacs (alveoli) in your lungs, making you progressively more short of breath.
What is Emphysema?
200
In the U.S. since 1947, reported cases and deaths from this disease have declined by 95% and 99% because of the continued use of antitoxin for wound management and the introduction of vaccines for this disease in the 1930s and 1940s.
What is Tetanus?
400
This vaccine is recommended for everyone, age six months and older, each year typically starting in September or October.