Introduction
The science and art of preventing disease, prolonging life and promoting physical health and efficiency through the organized efforts and informed choices of society, organizations, communities and individuals
What is public Health
This pandemic is inaccurately named due to media censoring to maintain morale, in which the country it's named after did not actually have the first reported case of the disease
What is the Spanish Flu, or influenza pandemic of 1918
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 main governing body in South Carolina responsible for promoting and protecting the health of the public and the environment
What is SCDHEC (as formerly known, now split into the SC Department of Public Health and SC Department of Environmental Services)
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 sought to understand disease progression in a male population; however, it engaged in highly unethical practices which ultimately lead to the creation of the Belmont Protocol, in which strict guidelines for human subjects' protection
What is the U.S. Public Health Service (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?
This level of government is responsible for day-to-day public health services
What is local public health?