Global Health Basics
This index that measure the average number of years a newborn is expected to live if current mortality rates continue
What is Life Expectancy?
This disease is caused by a parasite and transmitted by Anopheles mosquitoes with symptoms including fever, chills, and anemia
What is Malaria?
This practice involves inserting very thin needles through a person's skin at specific points to balance energy flow
What is ACUPUNCTURE?
This U.S. program, introduced in 1965, helps with medical expenses for eligible individuals who have low income and limited resources and is jointly funded by the federal and state governments.
What is MEDICAID?
This U.S. city is home to the headquarters of the World Health Organization (WHO) in the Americas
What is Washington DC?
This global event led to the creation of the WHO in 1948
What is World War II?
This is nicknamed Montezuma's Revenge and is commonly contracted when visiting Mexico or Central America
What is Traveler's Diarrhea?
This traditional Indian system of medicine focuses on balancing bodily systems through diet, herbal treatment, and yogic breathing
What is AYURVEDA?
Passed in 2010, this landmark health law expanded insurance coverage and created insurance marketplaces
What is Obamacare (Affordable Care Act)?
This Southeast Asian country has the highest number of people living with HIV/AIDS in the region, and has implemented extensive public health programs to combat the epidemic.
What is Thailand?
This global health milestone was achieved in 1980 after a massive vaccination campaign led by the WHO
What is smallpox eradication?
After racing a rival to a cure, Dr. Albert Sabin got an oral vaccine for this approved in the US in 1961.
What is Polio?
This was first created by Daniel David Palmer and involves procedures such as the Ring Dinger, the Gonstead Method, and the Thompson Drop Table Technique.
What is Chiropractic Medicine?
A critical piece of the Affordable Care Act (ACA), this mandate requires U.S. citizens to have health insurance or face a financial penalty, although it was effectively repealed in 2019
What is Individual Mandate?
This was the first country to establish a universal health insurance system
What is Germany?
DAILY DOUBLE!!!
A 2015 outbreak of this disease led to the WHO's first declaration of a Public Health Emergency of International Concern (PHEIC) for a vector-borne disease
A vaccine against this respiratory illness came out in the US in 1914 & eventually combined with 2 other vaccines.
What is Whooping cough (Pertussis)?
This plant of the Panax genus is used extensively in Asian herbal medicine and is an ingredient in the erectile dysfunction medication Icarifil
What is Ginseng?
This U.S. government program, created in the 1970s, aims to improve healthcare services for Native American populations by providing comprehensive health services through a network of hospitals, clinics, and community programs.
What is the INDIAN HEALTH Service?
There’s a statue in Central Park of this heroic sled dog for helping run a diphtheria antitoxin to remote Alaskans in 1925
What is Balto?
This is a NEW global health concept that emphasizes the interconnectedness of human, animal, and environmental health, and is increasingly important in managing emerging infectious diseases
What is One Health?
I am a neglected tropical disease that causes extreme swelling of the limbs, often called "elephantiasis."
What is Lymphatic Filariasis?
This controversial alternative therapy claims that diseases are caused by disruptions in the body's "vital force" and involves using highly diluted substances to trigger the body's healing responses
What is HOMEOPATHY?
This was a piece of egislation that was part of the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009 that incentivized the meaningful use of EHRs and strengthened the privacy and security provisions of HIPAA
What is the HITECH Act?
He got a special Presidential Citation in 1955, passed away in 1995 & was dubbed “The Man Who Saved the Children” (hint he created a vaccine that was mentioned in a Sketchy)
What is Jonas Salk?