Public Health
This represents a lack of fairness or equity, which results from the structure of society or discrimination by individuals or groups. Some roots of this include poverty, socioeconomic gap between poor and rich, racism, sexism, ageism, maldistribution of resources, etc.
What are social injustices
A lack of antibodies to a particular organism is
What is susceptibility
This region became known as cancer alley in the 1980s by a number of activists.
What is the American south, the region between Baton Rouge and New Orleans.
Heart disease and cancer alone in the 1990s accounted for almost what percentage of deaths.
What is 60%.
The year HIV was first noticed amongst groups of men
What is 1980
Which president made the statement "We should not ask government to do for us what we should only do for ourselves, but we should use government to do those things that we can only do together" during his state of union address.
What is president Clinton.
In the biomedical model, the occurrence of disease largely came to be as the result of what
What is discrete phenomena
Why did activists name this region of the United States cancer alley?
What is there were industrial chemical facilities scattered across the different districts.
The standard of proof linking cigarettes and tobacco to cancer is different than most diseases and such that can just be seen through the microscope. So what was the emerging field of study that showed to be the standard of proof for this statement/information.
What is statistics
The year the term AIDS, defined as acquired immunodeficiency syndrome, was first coined and used
What is 1982
The belief that all individual responsibility for heath is a significant factor underlying the failure to redress a serious inequity in the distribution of health care
What is voluntary employer-based insurance
Yellow fever was extremely prevalent in America in the 18th and early 19th centuries. It was estimated to have killed how many Americans?
What is more than 100,000 people
From the 1700s to the 1800s the landscape along the Mississippi river was divided into different sized plantation properties. After the civil way many plantations remained within their original white ownership. However, a bureau was made to give numerous small grants of land to newly freed slaves and their extended family. Even though many of these petrochemical companies will later buy land from the original white owners.
What is the Freedman's Bureau
What report stated that "Cigarette smoking is a health hazard of sufficient importance in the United States to warrant appropriate remedial action." This stated that those who smoked cigarettes experienced death rates from lung cancer 1,000 times more likely than that of a non-smoker.
What is the 1964 Surgeon General Report
What is medical personnel, representatives from the LGBT communities and others.
The belief for the last 150 years that is the preservation of social responsibility that is undermined in the belief that individuals are solely responsible for the state of their health. Despite the technological and professional advances and changes in medicine and health-related research.
What is the idea that health is an essential good and a collective resource.
The germ theory spawned effective technologies to help combat infection from the introduction of ____ ____ in the 1930s and _____ in the 1940s.
What is sulfa drugs and antibiotics.
During 1964, this city was targeted by many different petrochemical companies development, because the government had promised them no local property taxes, stabilization of the riverbank, and also new state highways. However, many of the local residents were being excluded from this workforce.
What is Geismar, Louisana.
Why was there such an emphasis on the individual responsibility for health, especially with specific behaviors such as smoking cigarettes/tobacco, diet, and exercise.
What is no longer was disease viewed as a random event.
This was the largest underground buyers club in the United States. It helped people import different drugs from other countries that were unapproved there during the time to help those suffering from HIV and AIDS. These drugs included peptide T. albendazole, oral ampthotericin B, etc. This group was created to help those in need get the drugs they need because the FDA was not approving any sort of drug to help HIV and AIDS during this time.
What is people with aids (pwa) heath group
What are the six different influences of professionalizing public health.
What is public demands, intellectual foundations, education, political influences, economic factors, and professional organizations.
The term ____ means the inoculation against smallpox using the. related but far less dangerous virus. It comes from the latin word ___ which means "cow".
What is vaccination and vacua.
These three towns were all predominately African American, and all three of these towns ended up being bought out with their residents forced to move due to chemical exposure.
What is Morrisonville, Sunshine, and Reveilletown
After the surgeon general had released his report action was taken. They had decided to treat this as a public health concern rather than just an individual. health concern. What action was put into place after this report?
What is educating consumers about smoking (however still having the option to choose).
The five states that had over two thirds of the population of infected Americans living with Aids in 1988 are
What is New York, New Jersey, California, Texas, and Florida