Immunity
Population immunity, or immunization of a certain majority of the population to prevent an epidemic.
What is herd immunity?
Smog, particulate matter, diesel exhaust.
What is air pollution?
True or false? Licensure and certification of health professionals are essentially the same processes and result in the same scope of practice.
What is false?
The state of having limited insurance coverage due to the type or affordability of health insurance plans, including employer-enrolled or marketplace plans.
What is underinsured?
This agency is responsible for providing guidance on prevention, health data, epidemic investigation, and public health measures aimed at disease control and prevention.
What is the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention?
When a communicable disease spreads across national boundaries, causing widespread illness and/or mortality.
What is a pandemic?
Both of these environmental conditions result from human activity--our consumption, waste, and stewardship practices, leading to impacts on human and animal health.
What are the altered and built environment?
This characteristic of healthcare quality proposed by the National Committee for Quality Assurance emphasizes quality of services that help people manage chronic illness and is measured via review of clinical records and interviews with staff/patients.
What is the 'Living with Illness' characteristic?
In order to qualify for this type of government-funded insurance, one must have an income that is at or below a certain percentage of the FPL; however, many who are considered 'low-income' still do not meet this eligibility requirement and must find other coverage.
What is Medicaid?
'Create, champion, and implement policies, plans and laws falls' under this Core Public Health function within the 10 Essential Public Health Services.
What is Policy Development?
Malaria is an example of a communicable disease that falls under this categorization of how infectious disease spreads.
What is endemic?
This step of risk assessment provides an indication of how different levels of exposure to a hazard produce different health outcomes.
What is dose-response relationship?
List the four types of care coordination within healthcare systems.
Without ACA subsidies to cover out-of-pocket costs associated with insurance plans through this type of insurance, also known as the 'insurance exchange', many people are choosing to be uninsured for lack of other affordable options.
What is the Marketplace or Insurance Marketplace?
Local health departments are responsible for communicable disease surveillance and initial investigation of outbreaks, and may do this work in collaboration with other healthcare providers/professionals. This work falls under this core function of public health within the 10 Essential Public Health Services.
What is Assessment?
The vaccine bill proposed in Oregon (remember the documentary) to mandate vaccines for all children attending public learning institutions, except if the children have a medical exemption.
What is HB3063?
This mode of interaction with the environment specifies that the effects of exposure to a hazard or other environmental toxin may vary in severity due to someone's age.
What is 'stage of life'?
These healthcare professionals may contribute to improving population health by educating about vaccines, prevention medications like PrEp, and mitigating further spread of STIs while being treated.
What are pharmacists?
Pregnancy, maternity and newborn care; preventive services; prescription drugs; and pediatric services, including oral and vision care are all considered...
What are the 10 Essential Health Benefits?
'Providing education and training that encompasses a spectrum of public health competencies, including technical, strategic, and leadership skills' is one component of this Core Function of Public Health within the 10 Essential Public Health Services.
What is Assurance?
Some examples like attitudes about personal freedom or fear of how vaccines actually prevent disease may impact the success of statewide vaccine policies.
What is vaccine hesitancy?
What is an ecological assessment?
This Act increased patient access to health information while providing an opportunity for patients to correct health information and engage more directly with their healthcare provider.
What is the Cures Act?
This paradigm for insurance coverage is in direct opposition to dominant American sentiments about who should be afforded what and how; however, it might provide a solution for enabling higher quality healthcare and better health outcomes.
What is universal health insurance?
This agency has authority to regulate biological products, cosmetics, and even medical devices.
What is the FDA?