Injury (Ch 17)
This is the leading cause of injury death in the US
What is poisoning (driven mostly by drug overdose deaths)?
These are the most common type of reported mental health disorders
What are anxiety and depression?
This is a main measure of children's health and gauge of society's attention to children's health
What is the infant mortality rate?
This environmental contaminant was used for years in thermometers and other lab equipment, and due to coal mining, now exists at dangerous levels in the tissues of fish such as tuna
What is mercury?
True or False: dangerous radiation can be both naturally occurring AND man-made
True
In the 1930s, the federal government enacted these policies to protect children from workplace accidents
What are child labor laws?
Seatbelt laws are an example of this type of injury prevention (options: primary, secondary, tertiary)
What is primary?
This is the Towson University office where students in crisis can receive therapy through same-day appointments
What is the Towson University Counseling Center?
This is the number one risk factor for infant mortality
This is the name of the cancerous lesions caused by radiation exposure on the skin from the sun's ultraviolet light
What is melanoma?
This type of paint tastes sweet, posing a risk to children and pets exposed to it
What is lead paint?
This kind of care can help pregnant people prepare mentally and physically for having a child, which can help prevent birth defects
What is prenatal care?
Much like infectious disease transmission, injury deaths are understood to be a result of factors involving the host, agent, and THIS
What is the environment?
These are some of the reasons people do not seek treatment for mental health disorders
What are cost of treatment and mental health stigma
This country has the highest teenage pregnancy rate in the industrialized world
The "____ Girls" painted glow-in-the-dark paint on watches - and suffered the consequences from exposure to a dangerous contaminant
What is Radium?
This type of environmental exposure is dangerous for people who work with insulation, especially in buildings from the 1970s and earlier
What is asbestos?
This is the cost of mental health counseling at TU
What is free?
These are the 2nd and 3rd leading causes of injury death in the United States
What are motor vehicle crashes and firearms injuries?
This is an example of a structural change to improve mental health
What is starting a crisis hotline, expanding access to mental healthcare, etc? (many possible answers)
Public health campaigns recommend putting children to sleep on their backs to prevent this cause of infant mortality
What is SIDS (Sudden Infant Death Syndrome)?
This substance is responsible for the poisoning of residents of Flint, Michigan
What is lead?
This possible endocrine disruptor in soft plastics such as water bottles is now outlawed
What is BPA?
This is an example of a public health program that provides free meals to people in need (many examples)
What is the school lunch program, WIC, SNAP benefits, etc?
These are the "three E's of injury prevention"
What are Education, Enforcement, and Engineering?
This is a breathing technique used by Navy Seals
What is box breathing?
This is the type of prenatal vitamin that prevents Spina Bifida
What is folic acid?
This is the name for factory farms for animal cultivation
What are Concentration Animal Feeding Operations (CAFOs)?
This book influenced U.S. environmental policy and activism, particularly about pesticides such as DDT
What is Silent Spring?
This is the numerical way MMR is expressed
What is: the number of deaths /per 100,000 pregnant people within one year of end of pregnancy