All about Food
An urban area in which it is difficult to buy affordable or good-quality fresh food.
What is a Food Desert?
The ongoing pandemic remains front and center for public health officials. The deadly virus has put the entire world in a state of emergency.
A disproportionate number of health conditions and deaths compared with the general population.
What is a health disparity?
Generally, this can be described as the manufactured or modified structures that provide people with living, working, and recreational spaces and creating all these spaces and systems requires enormous quantities of materials.
What is the Built Environment?
This is a naturally occurring metal used to make common products like batteries and pipes and while it has beneficial uses, it can be toxic.
What is lead?
Not having access to sufficient food, or food of an adequate quality to meet one's basic needs.
What is Food Insecurity?
These two inflictions remain the leading cause of death worldwide.
What is heart attack and stroke?
Within countries, the evidence shows that in general the lower an individual’s socioeconomic position the worse their health, creating a spectrum.
What is a social gradient?
The fair treatment and meaningful involvement of all people, regardless of race, ethnicity, culture, income or education level for the development, implementation, and enforcement of environmental laws, regulations, and policies.
What is environmental justice?
The state with the highest percentage of adults that are physically inactive, according to CDC data.
What is Kentucky? (30%)
Due to this constant, potential public health threat, the CDC tracks food borne illnesses, making this issue a priority.
What is Food Safety?
While there have been enormous strides made in the treatment and prevention of this disease -- there are still millions who die each year from it.
What is HIV/AIDS?
The circumstances in which people are born, grow up, live, work and age, and the systems put in place to deal with illness and these circumstances are called a specific term.
What is the social determinants of health?
Situations or materials that pose a threat to human health and safety in the built or natural environment, as well as to the health and safety of other animals and plants, and to the proper functioning of an ecosystem, habitat, or other natural resource.
What are environmental hazards?
Any agent that causes disease, especially a microorganism such as bacterium or fungus.
What is a pathogen?
This public health issue effects an estimated 93.3 million American adults and more than 13.7 million children – and those numbers will likely grow significantly in the near future.
Illness caused by an infectious agent that occurs through the direct or indirect transmission to a susceptible animal or human host.
What is a communicable disease?
He is a medical anthropologist and physician who has dedicated his life to improving health care for the world's poorest people.
Who is Paul Farmer?
A substance that is either present in an environment where it does not belong or is present at levels that might cause harmful (adverse) health effects.
What is a contaminent?
The restriction of the activities of healthy people who have been exposed to a communicable disease, during its period of communicability, to prevent disease transmission during the incubation period should infection occur.
What is a quarantine?
A program that provides nutrition benefits to supplement the food budget of needy families so they can purchase healthy food and move towards self-sufficiency.
What is SNAP (Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program)?
A group of cases of a specific disease or illness clearly in excess of what one would normally expect in a particular geographic area.
What is an epidemic?
Populations with barriers to the health care system include the uninsured, the underinsured, and socially disadvantaged people.
What are underserved populations?
Thousands of contaminated sites that exist nationally due to hazardous waste being dumped, left out in the open, or otherwise improperly managed.
What are Superfund sites?
The state of complete physical, mental, and social well-being, and not merely the absence of disease or infirmity.
What is health?