Introduction
These are non-medical factors that affect health outcomes
What are social determinants of health?
This innovation helps protect against a variety of communicable diseases that historically led to mass deaths due to their high mortality rates
What are vaccines?
This describes the common good, and includes minimal levels of income, basic housing, employment, education and health care should be fundamental rights
What is social justice?
This describes the number of existing cases of a health outcome/disease in a population
What is prevalence?
This is the nation's leading spokesperson on public health matters
Who is the Surgeon General
Preventing injury or illness from occurring by preventing exposure to risk factors
What is primary prevention?
Known as the father of epidemiology, this physician studied cholera, and eventually identified a pump in London contributing to the epidemic
Who is John Snow?
This describes individual responsibility, minimal obligation to the common good, fundamental freedom to all individuals to be left alone and results in burdens and benefits of society are not fairly distributed
What is market justice?
This describes the number of new cases of disease in a given population
What is incidence?
This agency is responsible for federal public health activities
What is the Department of Health and Human Services
The diagnostic function, in which a public health agency collects, assembles, analyzes, and makes available information on the health of the population
What is the assessment function of public health?
He was interested in a safe way to prevent smallpox
Who is Edward Jenner?
This source of controversy is rooted in the misrepresentation or suppression of scientific information in favor of a certain agenda
What is political interference with science?
This includes the who, where, and when questions
What is descriptive epidemiology?
This is the main assessment and epidemiological agency for the US
What is the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC)?
This involves the use of scientific knowledge to develop a strategic approach to improving the community’s health.
What is the policy development function of public health?
This is the hypothesis that microbes could cause disease in the body, rather than the commonly believed "miasms"
What is the germ theory of disease?
This source of controversy describes public health measures that may restrict public freedom
What is individual liberty?
This is the measure of association that describes the risk of developing a disease
What is relative risk?
This constitutional amendment places the burden of public health responsibility on the states
What is the 10th amendment?
The responsibility of assuring that the services needed for the protection of public health in the community are available and accessible to everyone
What is the assurance function of public health?
This study is well known for its ethical violations that eventually led to changes in how studies obtain consent from their participants
U.S Public Health Service's (USPHS) Untreated Syphilis Study at Tuskegee
This source of controversy is concerned with the costs of public health
What is economic impact?
What is odd's ratio?
These grant states the power to establish and enforce laws protecting the general welfare, safety, and health of the public
What are police powers?