Disease
Vaccine
Public Health Program
Public Health Policy
Public Health Trend
100
This disease killed 2 million people each year worldwide and was completely eradicated globally in the 1970's.
What is smallpox.
100
This vaccine could've prevented the multi-states measles outbreak in Disneyland in 2015.
What is MMR.
100
This nutrition program provides food assistance to mothers and children from low-income families.
What is WIC.
100
This type of public health campaign involves administration of vaccine doses to a large population over a short period of time.
What is mass vaccination.
100
Teenager pregnancy rate has dropped significantly by 40 percent from 2009 to 2013 in Colorado due to the state's successful program that provided this type of medical devices to young women for free.
What is long-acting birth control method such as intrauterine devices and implants.
200
These two diseases account for over 50% of all deaths in the United States.
What is cancer and heart disease. Heart disease causes 614,348 deaths and cancer causes 591,699 death each year in the U.S.
200
These two vaccines are routinely recommended to pregnant women.
What are Tdap and flu vaccines.
200
First time moms who are enrolled in this free program receive regular visits from trained public health nurses until their babies turn two years old.
What is Nurse Family Partnership (NFP).
200
This term is used to refer to a group of diseases that are of great public health importance and required to be reported when they are diagnosed by doctors or laboratories by local, state and federal health departments.
What is reportable diseases (or notifiable diseases).
200
This type of nurse work in non-hospital settings. Their work is population based rather than individual based. They are often generalists who can work in various programs.
What is Public Health nurse.
300
This highly-contagious disease, was also known as consumption, is spread through the air from one person to another.
What is tuberculosis.
300
Providers should report any adverse reactions to vaccines to this system.
What is Vaccine Adverse Event Reporting System (VAERS).
300
Nurses in this public health program uses the Brain Wise curriculum to teach critical thinking skills to families who are involved with human services.
What is Collaboration program.
300
This house bill passed in 2014 requires schools to provide exemption rates upon request as well as parents to take an online vaccine education module if they choose to sign the personal exemption form.
What is House Bill 14-1288.
300
This hospital visit trend was observed in Colorado several years after recreational marijuana was legalized in 2012.
What is an increase in marijuana-related emergency room visits, especially among out-of-state visitors.
400
This food-borne illness is caused by a parasite that is tolerant to chlorine. The most common mode of transmission is drinking or swimming in contaminated water. Both you and your dog can get it.
What is giardiasis.
400
This is the only vaccine that prevents cancers.
What is human papillomavirus vaccine (HPV).
400
This program provides free sterile syringes and collect used syringes from injection-drug users (IDUs) to reduce transmission of bloodborne pathogens, including human immunodeficiency virus (HIV), hepatitis B virus, and hepatitis C virus (HCV)
What is syringe exchange.
400
This national initiative provides science-based, 10-year national objectives for improving the health of all Americans. It identifies nationwide health improvement priorities, increase public awareness and understanding of the determinants of health, disease, and disability and the opportunities for progress.
What is Healthy People 2020.
400

More and more health departments are applying to meet certain standards and measures that are the framework for evaluating a health department’s processes and services, their outcomes, and progress toward specific goals and objectives via this process.

What is Public Health Accreditation?

500
Fruit bats are natural hosts of the virus that causes this disease with fatality rates varied from 25% to 90% in past outbreaks.
What is ebola.
500
This form of indirect protection from infectious disease occurs when a critical portion of a community is immunized against a contagious disease, and most members of the community are protected against that disease because there is little opportunity for an outbreak.
What is herd immunity or community immunity.
500
This nation’s oldest federal-state partnership aims to improve the health and well-being of women, particularly mothers, and children.
What is Title V Maternal and Child Health Services Block Grant Program.
500
Every health department is required to update this plan every three to five years to address public health problems on the basis of the results of community health assessment activities and the community health improvement process.
What is the community health improvement plan (or CHIP).
500
Colorado Department of Public Health and Environment has identified these two issues as top public health priorities in most communities across the state in 2015.
What is obesity and mental health/substance abuse.
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