Health Policy
US federal law that aims to protect protected health information (PHI), such as medical records, from misuse and disclosure.
What is HIPAA (Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act)?
This organization is the leading global authority on international public health and is headquartered in Geneva, Switzerland.
What is the World Health Organization (WHO)?
The father of modern epidemiology
Who's John Snow?
Author of "Introduction to Global Health" and "Introduction to Health Research Methods"
Who is Dr. Jacobsen
Which graduating class will include the first Health Studies majors?
What is 2025?
This U.S. government program provides health insurance for people aged 65 and older.
What is Medicare?
What is the term used to describe where one is born, grow, live and work and how all these shapes their health outcomes?
Social determinants of health
The number of new cases of a disease in a population during a specific period is known as what?
What is incidence?
This professor is a UR Alum
Dr. Mayes
In which semester do we have the Health Studies ice cream social?
What is Fall?
The amount paid out of pocket by the policy holder before an insurance provider will pay any expenses.
What is deductible?
This disease, transmitted by the Aedes mosquito, causes fever, rash, and joint pain. It can also be sexually transmitted and was linked to a surge in microcephaly cases in newborns during a major outbreak in Brazil in 2015–2016
What is Zika/Zika virus disease?
This type of epidemiological study follows a group of people over time to examine the relationship between exposures and health outcomes.
What is a cohort study?
Used to be an associate professor in the political science department
Who is Dr. Mayes?
In what suite is the department of Health Studies located?
What is G21?
Defined as the equal access to health programs and services for people with and without intellectual disabilities
What is inclusive health?
What term is used to describe a demographic pattern in which the average women give birth to two children, one to “replace “her in the next generation and another to “replace” her partner?
What are replacement population and replacement fertility?
A measure of the association between an exposure and an outcome, indicating how much more (or less) likely the outcome is to occur in the exposed group compared to the unexposed group.
What is odds ratio?
Which 2 professors started working at UR at the same time?
Who are Dr. Blondino and Dr. Tait?
Which HS course changed number in the past year?
What is "Patients and Providers"?
This term refers to the legal requirement that mental health benefits are no more restrictive than medical and surgical benefits in insurance coverage.
What is mental health parity?
The “big 4” are the biggest cause of mortality and YLDs in adulthood globally. Name the big 4
What are cardiovascular diseases, cancer, chronic respiratory diseases and diabetes?
A study design where participants are randomly assigned to either an intervention (treatment) group or a control group to evaluate the effect of an exposure or treatment on a specific outcome. It is considered the highest level of evidence to establish causal associations in clinical research.
What is a randomized control trial?
Who has their PhD from Penn State?
Who is Dr. James?
What building was the Health Studies department in before moving to Richmond Hall in F'23?