Terms
Providing accessible services to promote the health of populations most at risk for health problems
What is equity?
The process of collecting primary and secondary data, analyzing it, and selecting health priorities for St. Croix County.
What is the Community Needs Assessment?
The group that suffers the most, by being the most marginalized and vulnerable to disabilities and disease.
Who are the homeless?
The recommended age for a child's first dose of the MMR vaccine.
What is six months?
The recommended duration of exclusive breastfeeding for infants.
What is six months?
This color-coded system alerts the public about air quality levels.
What is the Air Quality Index (AQI)?
The study of the occurrence and distribution of health-related states or events in specified populations, including the study of the determinants influencing such states, and the application of this knowledge to control the health problems.
What is epidemiology?
A non-profit that accredits public health departments in the United States.
What is Public Health Accreditation Board or PHAB?
Intentional or negligent act of a caregiver or any other person that causes harm or serious risk of harm to older adults?
What is elder abuse?
The common virus that causes chickenpox.
What is varicella-zoster virus?
The leading cause of infant mortality in the U.S.
What is preterm birth?
The type of pollution caused by vehicles, factories, and wildfires.
What is air pollution?
The ongoing systematic collection, analysis, interpretation, and dissemination of health data for use in public health.
What is disease surveillance?
The Wisconsin administrative code that defines the required services for St. Croix County Public Health
What is Chapter DHS 140?
This population is affected by the income level of caregivers, and faces food insecurity, is at risk for homelessness, and may have difficulty with learning and development.
Who are children?
This term describes the percentage of a population that needs immunity to stop disease spread.
What is herd immunity?
This vitamin is given to newborns to prevent bleeding disorders.
What is Vitamin K?
The federal agency that regulates dairy products.
What is the Food and Drug Administration (FDA)
A collaborative process of assessment, planning, facilitation, care coordination, evaluation, and advocacy for options and services to meet individual and family comprehensive health needs through communication and available resources to promote patient safety, quality of care, and cost-effective outcomes.
What is case management?
What St. Croix County core plan or process is missing from this six pack list: Community Health Plan, Community Health Assessment, Strategic Plan, Workforce Development Plan, Performance Improvement Plan?
What is the Quality Improvement Plan?
Violence, substance use disorder, mental health issues and illness, poverty and homelessness, rural residency, migrant emplotment, veteran status, and diability
What are vulnerable populations?
The 19 in the name COVID-19 stands for what?
What is the year this coronavirus was identified?
WIC services is broken into 4 areas. Three of them are: Breastfeeding Support, Healthy Foods, Referrals to health services and other resources. What is the 4th area of WIC?
What is Nutrition Education?
This harmful metal, once common in paint and gasoline, can cause neurological damage in children.
What is lead?
A graphic illustration of population-based public health practice known as the Public Health Intervention Model and “Minnesota Model."
What is the Intervention Wheel?
Plan, Do, Check, Act
What are the steps of the Quality Improvement Process?
Distances from services, lack of personal and public transportation, and unpredictable weather or travel conditions.
What are barriers to health for rural popluations?
The most common modes of Hepatitis A transmission.
What is fecal/oral?
The term for the death of a woman during pregnancy or within 42 days after childbirth.
What is maternal mortality?
Significant changes in global temperature, precipitation, wind patterns and other measures of climate that occur over several decades or longer.
What is climate change?