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100
This event is the main volunteer-driven cancer fundraising event of the American Cancer Society.
What is Relay for Life
100
There is a higher rate of smoking among this gender.
What is males
100
Everyone over ___ age should get the flu vaccine.
What is 6 months old
100
The founder of the "Let's Move" program.
Who is Michelle Obama
100
This organization's mission is centred on preventing and controlling disease and promoting environmental health and health education in the United States.
What is The CDC
200
This provides a fun activity for the hospitalized children, while also helping them gain basic knowledge about the world’s geography. Many children who battle cancers like leukemia spend days, weeks, months and years in treatment and are often confined to their hospital rooms.
What is The World Ball Project
200
Among this age group there has been a decrease in cigarette use due to the increase on cigarette taxes.
What is 15 and up
200
The flu vaccine is available in these 2 methods.
What is shot, nasal spray
200
The founder of the American Red Cross.
Who is Clara Barton
200
Health is a complete physical, mental, and social well-being and not merely the absence of disease or infirmity is the definition of health according to what organization?
What is WHO
300
This society is the world's largest voluntary (nonprofit) health organization dedicated to funding blood cancer research and providing education and patient services
What is The Leukemia and Lymphoma Society?
300
This organization is aimed at working to save lives by improving lung health and preventing lung disease through education and research.
What is the American Lung Association
300
By 2010 a record 109 children had been vaccinated and global immunization rates were at 85% thanks to this this WHO organization.
What is UNICEF
300
This person invented the small pox vaccine.
Who is Edward Jenner.
300
The goal of this organization is to help bring an end to premature births.
What is The March of Dimes
400
There are approximately ____ different types of cancer.
What is 100 types.
400
3000 non-smokers die each year from this disease when they have been exposed to second-hand smoke.
What is lung cancer
400
This was the first successful vaccine to be developed.
What is smallpox
400
After becoming infected with HIV/AIDS, this celebrity basketball player is a spokesperson for the HIV/AIDS cause.
Who is Magic Johnson
400
The Syme article "Social Determinants of Health: The Community as an Empowered Partner" dealt with this project.
What is Smoking cessation project
500
This is the single largest preventable cause of cancer in the world.
What is tobacco use.
500
Smoking is the cause of this percentage of lung cancer deaths.
What is 90%
500
This vaccine was developed by Jonas Salk in 1955 to combat an infectious disease that left some of its victim's paralyzed.
What is polio vaccine
500
After being diagnosed with testicular cancer in 1996, this professional athlete began the Livestrong organization.
Who is Lance Armstrong
500
Community ___ was the purpose of the project in the Syme article.
What is Involvement/Empowerment/Partnership