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Because of this, the general public has become more aware of violence in schools.

What is the number of high-profile incidents of violence in schools across the country?

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Mold and cockroaches are believed to be related to the development of asthma and represent this kind of determinant of health.
What is environmental?
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Any factor, whether event, characteristic, or other definable entity, that brings about a change in a health condition or other defined characteristic
What is a determinant?
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An example of this type of environment is when pesticide poisoning is a risk to workers who apply the pesticides to crops.
What is the altered environment?
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This is the lead federal agency for prevention, health data, epidemic investigation and public health measures aimed at disease control and prevention
What is Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC)
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New guidelines (November 2017) mean that half of all Americans are considered to have this.
What is high blood pressure? The new guidelines state that people with a blood pressure of 130/80 should be treated (down from 140/90). The new guidelines mean that 103 million people in the US have high blood pressure, as compared to the previous 72 million.
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A determinant of health defined that includes education, family income, and professional job status.
What is socioeconomic status?
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When the occurrence of a disease exceeds the normal rate.
What is an epidemic?
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Any substance that enters a system (the environment, human body, food, etc.) where it is not normally found.
What is a contaminant?
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When a state health department is responsible for licensure of physicians, nurses and other health professionals it is an example of this public health function.
What is assurance?
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Disneyland shut down its cooling towers following an outbreak of this.
What is Legionnaires disease? Legionnaires is caused by the Legionella bacteria which can live in cooling units and water systems.
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A collection of information or list about a group of people with a specific sickness; system for recording or tracking specific sicknesses
What is a disease registry?
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This term describes any disease or infection that is naturally transmitted from animals to humans?
What is zoonosis?
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This is the type of assessment that would examine how when Chemical X is released from a plastics factor into the municipal water system it enters into a small river and is ingested by fish and reduces their reproduction rate
What is an ecological assessment?
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This can be accomplished through preventing exposure, increasing resistance, or removing a cause.
What is primary prevention?
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The FDA said it will seize shipments of this plant because of health dangers.
What is kratom? Kratom is an herb that is used both recreationally and as an alternative to painkillers. According to FDA Director Scott Gottlieb, there have been 36 deaths associated with its use.
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Ways in which a disease can spread or pass to others.
What are modes of transmission?
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A study that compares people who have a sickness, medical or health condition, or injury to a group of people without the sickness, medical or health condition, or injury
What is a case-control study?
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The change in effect on an organism caused by differing levels of exposure (or doses) to a stressor (usually a chemical) after a certain exposure time.
What is a dose-response relationship?
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Implementing an intervention with a series of small groups instead of the entire population.

What is phasing in?

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President Biden nominated Xavier Becerra to this cabinet position.

What is Secretary of Health and Human Services? Becerra is the first person of Hispanic decent to hold this post. 

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A person or group with an interest or concern in something.
What is a stakeholder?
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How often an event happens in a group of people in a certain period of time.
What is an incidence rate?
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A former industrial or commercial site where future use is affected by real or perceived environmental contamination.
What is a Brownfield site?
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The agency leading medical research center and the federal focal point for medical research in the United States?

What is the National Institute of Health? (NIH)