The Blame Game
This is the practice of holding individuals responsible for negative outcomes that are largely outside of their control. It can exacerbate health disparities and prevent effective policy interventions.
What is victim blaming?
Lead poisoning harms children in these two ways that pass down the lead issue to the next generation.
What are Genetics and environmental exposures?
Researchers realized they could test ___ of affected children, and he began paying children in the city’s poor neighborhoods with disproportionately African American populations for each __ that fell out.
What are baby teeth?
IQ stands for this
What is Intelligence Quotient?
In a website browser address bar, this is what “www” stands for.
What is the World Wide Web?
This is the migration of white people from the city to the suburbs.
What is White Flight?
These are the effects of lead poisoning on adults. Name 2.
What are stomach, kidney, brain, and nervous system injuries, as well as high blood pressure and behavioral problems?
Researchers initially used these three samples to test for lead levels, but they were not sensitive enough.
What are hair, skin and nail samples?
This number comes next in the pattern
37, 34, 31, 28
What is 25?
According to Greek mythology, she was the first woman on earth.
Who is Pandora?
This myth is the idea that individuals who are poor are poor because they have certain negative cultural traits or values. This myth can be used to blame individuals and communities for their own health outcomes, rather than addressing systemic issues of inequality and structural racism.
"Between 1999 and 2004, U.S. African American children were ___ times more likely than white children to test positive for lead."
What is "1.6 times"?
This touching and heartfelt movie came out in 2010 that stars Dwayne Johnson as a drill instructor, whose father dies and he must carry on his legacy as the tooth fairy.
What is the Tooth Fairy?
Book is to Reading as Fork is to:
a. drawing
b. writing
c. stirring
d. eating
What is eating?
This is the year the first Air Jordan sneakers were released, which also has an Orwellian history.
What is 1984?
In short, the industry’s stance that lead poisoning was “___,” not a lead-regulation problem, placed it far from the industry’s purview.
What is a public welfare problem?
This is what lead does to the cells of a fetus's brain.
What are "Brain cells may grow to the wrong size or in an incorrect configuration."?
"the average child had lead levels __ times higher than those of his suburban peers."
What is Five?
Which of the following can be arranged into a 5-letter English word?
a. H R G S T
b. R I L S A
c. T O O M T
d. W Q R G S
What is B: Rails and C: Motto?
These are currently the only two U.S. states that don’t observe Daylight Saving Time.
What are Arizona and Hawaii?
This organization has helped to free thousands of wrongfully accused, wrongly identified, and wrongly persued people.
What is the Innocence Project?
Lead poisoning lead to a rise in mental disorders. Name 2.
What is ADHD, conduct disorder, and autism?
This is Dwayne Johnson's Character's name in the movie The Tooth Fairy.
Who is Derek Thompson?
This person has the Guinness World Record for highest IQ at 210.
Who is Kim Ung-Yong?
Kingston, Zuma, and Apollo are the sons of this American female pop star.
Who is Gwen Stefani?