Public Health in Hospitals
This hospital practice helps prevent infections by requiring staff to clean their hands before and after patient contact.
What is hand hygiene?
This organization leads international efforts to monitor and improve global health.
What is the World Health Organization (WHO)?
This determinant includes income, education, and occupation.
What is socioeconomic status?
This class of drugs includes heroin and prescription painkillers like oxycodone.
What are opioids?
Exposure to this common air pollutant is linked to respiratory diseases like asthma.
What is air pollution?
A system that tracks patient data to improve quality of care and reduce medical errors.
What is an electronic health record (EHR)?
Diseases like malaria and tuberculosis are often categorized under this type of diseases that spread from person to person.
What are infectious diseases?
Lack of access to grocery stores with fresh food is known as this.
What is a food desert?
This condition is characterized by the inability to stop using a substance despite harmful consequences.
What is addiction?
This environmental issue is caused by the buildup of greenhouse gases in the atmosphere.
What is climate change?
This type of error occurs when a patient receives the wrong drug or dosage.
What is a medication error?
This term refers to the unequal distribution of health resources between countries.
What are health disparities?
This type of access includes having insurance and nearby healthcare providers.
What is healthcare access?
Naloxone is used to reverse overdoses from this type of drug.
What are opioids?
Lead exposure is especially harmful to this group of people.
Who are children?
This public health measure tracks patterns of disease within a hospital to improve outcomes.
What is surveillance?
Clean water access is a major factor in preventing this type of disease transmission.
What are waterborne diseases?
Safe housing and clean neighborhoods fall under this determinant category.
What is the physical environment?
This approach focuses on reducing the negative consequences of drug use rather than eliminating use entirely.
What is harm reduction?
This refers to the contamination of water sources by harmful substances.
What is water pollution?
This public health strategy in hospitals focuses on preventing disease before it occurs, such as vaccinations and screenings.
What is preventive care?
This global event declared in 2020 significantly impacted healthcare systems worldwide.
What is the COVID-19 pandemic?
This concept refers to unfair and avoidable differences in health outcomes.
What are health inequities?
This symptom includes anxiety, sweating, and nausea after stopping substance use.
What is withdrawal?
Reducing, reusing, and recycling are part of this environmental strategy.
What is waste management?