Abbreviations
What is the Center for Disease Control and Prevention.
Which disease has been completely eradicated?
What is smallpox. As recently as 1958, small pox killed 2 million people each year worldwide. Due to aggressive efforts by the World Health Organization, small pox was completely eradicated in the 1970's.
What does SPHIS stand for?
What is the School of Public Health and Information Sciences.
What is public health?
What is the science and art of preventing disease, prolonging life, and promoting health and efficiency through organized community efforts.
According to the WHO, what is the definition of health?
What is a state of complete physical, mental, and social well-being and not merely the absence of disease.
What is the WHO?
What is the World Health Organization?
Who is considered the father of epidemiology?
Who is John Snow? He conducted the famous cholera study in London in 1854. He mapped out the cases of people with cholera according to where they lived and worked using a spot map; mapped water pump locations. From this, he determined that there were more cases surrounding the "Broad Street Pump."
What is the SPHIS SGA Instagram?
What is uoflsga_sphis.
What is one of the fastest-growing public health concerns in the world?
What is diabetes? In 2006, according to the World Health Organization, at least 171 million people worldwide suffer from diabetes. Its incidence is increasing rapidly, and it is estimated that by the year 2030, this number will double.
What is included in the social-ecological model of health?
What is Society, community, interpersonal, and individual
What is an NGO?
What is a non-governmental organization.
Who created the first vaccine?
Who is Edward Jenner? He noticed that milkmaids who had gotten cowpox were protected from smallpox. Jenner also knew about variolation and guessed that exposure to cowpox could be used to protect against smallpox.
Who are the Public Health advisors?
Who is Jenna and Rachel.
What are the 5 core disciplines of public health?
What is Epidemiology, biostatistics, social and behavioral sciences, environmental sciences, and policy and health services administration.
What are the 3 preventions in public health?
What is Primary, Secondary, Tertiary Prevention
What is the CMS?
What is the Center for Medicare and Medicaid Services.
Which is the first illness that was attributed to an animal carrier?
What is malaria. Malaria is the first human illness attributed to an animal carrier (mosquitoes) in 1717.
What is a strategic planning technique used to describe and evaluate public health issues?
What is a public health scenario analysis.
What are the 3 core functions of public health?
What are assessment, policy development, and assurance?
What is "Healthy People"?
What is the national public health agenda that set goals for the nation's health and tracks progress
What is USPHS?
What is the United States Public Health Service.
What is the leading cause of death in the U.S.?
What is heart disease? In 2003: Heart disease caused approximately 655,000 deaths Cancer -- 550,000 Stroke -- 150,000 In 2004, AIDS -- 15,800
What is the highly competitive research program that is offered to juniors every summer?
What is the Summer Research Opportunity program.
What agencies are under the Department of Health and Human Services (DHHS)?
What is the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), National Institutes of Health (NIH), Food and Drug Administration (FDA), and Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS).
What is the most common type of local public health agency?
What is the county health department.