Mental Health
This mental health issue requires two weeks of continuous symptoms in order for it to be clinically diagnosed.
What is depression?
The medical term for when the pressure in your blood vessels is too high.
What is hypertension?
This is the science of protecting and improving the health of people and their communities. This work is achieved by promoting healthy lifestyles, researching disease and injury prevention, and detecting, preventing and responding to infectious diseases.
What is Public Health?
This is the full name of H4H.
What is "Hearts for the Homeless"?
This is the population that H4H aims to care for, the most vulnerable to cardiac diseases for a variety of factors, including lack of access to healthcare and information.
What is the homeless population?
This is the test that healthcare providers (and H4H volunteers) use to conduct mental health screenings for General Anxiety Disorder.
What is the GAD-7 Questionnaire?
This is the main and largest artery in the human body, originating from the left ventricle of the heart.
What is the Aorta?
This "H" is a federal law that required the creation of national standards to protect sensitive patient health information from being disclosed without the patient's consent or knowledge.
What is the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act of 1996 (HIPAA)?
This is the year, before the COVID-19 pandemic, when the USF chapter of H4H was founded.
What is 2017?
This is a protein in red blood cells that carries oxygen.
What is Hemoglobin?
This is a mental health disorder that develops in some people who have experienced shocking, scary, or dangerous events.
What is Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD)?
The top number on the blood pressure value, measures the pressure in your arteries when your heart beats.
What is Systolic BP?
This "M" is federal health insurance for people 65 or older, and some people under 65 with certain disabilities or conditions.
What is Medicare?
This is the Florida university where H4H was founded.
What is University of Central Florida?
This is a psychoactive substance with dependence-producing properties that can cause high blood pressure, heart disease, stroke, liver disease, and digestive problems.
What is Alcohol?
This is a medical condition that many pregnant people get after having a child, with symptoms of strong sadness, anxiety, and tiredness that last for a long time after giving birth.
What is Postpartum Depression (PPD)?
This is the normal range of blood pressure.
What is 90-120 systolic and 60-80 diastolic?
This "M" is a joint federal and state program that helps cover medical costs for some people with limited income and resources
What is Medicaid?
This committee on the USF H4H E-Board oversees the preparation for hurricane season.
What is the Natural Disasters Response Committee?
This refers to the lack of access to sanitary products, menstrual hygiene education, toilets, hand-washing facilities, or waste management.
What is Period Poverty?
This is the class of medications that manages anxiety.
What are Benzodiazepines?
This is a medical instrument that records the electrical signal from the heart to check for different heart conditions.
What is an Electrocardiogram (ECG or EKG)?
This "S" is a term to describe the non-medical factors that influence health outcomes.
What is the Social Determinants of Health (SDOH)?
These are the founders of H4H.
Who are Andrew Aboujaoude, Jennifer Carvel, and Alexis Ghersi?
This "H" is the degree to which individuals have the ability to find, understand, and use information and services to inform health-related decisions and actions for themselves and others.
What is Health Literacy?