Public Health Basics
This term describes diseases that spread from person to person in a population.
What are communicable diseases?
This type of program allows individuals use clean needles, reducing disease transmission.
What is a syringe exchange or needle exchange program?
This type of support uses people with lived experience to guide individuals through recovery.
What is peer support or peer navigation?
These two community partners are engaged in our 18 month pilot demonstration project.
Who are Mental Health Cooperative and Samaritan Recovery Community?
This country superstar has a museum dedicated to their life and music in Nashville.
Who is Dolly Parton?
Public health uses this type of data to track disease patterns, risk factors, and outcomes.
What is epidemiology?
Providing safe spaces for drug use, with monitoring and health services, is called this.
What is a supervised consumption site / safe injection site?
Medications used to reduce cravings and prevent relapse in opioid use disorder are part of this treatment approach.
What is medication-assisted treatment (MAT)?
The Opioid System of Care aims to impact this many people through direct care processes, peer navigation, and treatment services.
What is 270 people?
Nashville was named after this Revolutionary War hero.
Who is Francis Nash?
Public health frameworks often reference these “determinants” that include socioeconomic status, environment, and genetics.
What are social determinants of health?
This U.S. federal agency provides guidelines on harm reduction strategies and overdose response.
What is the CDC (Centers for Disease Control and Prevention)?
These programs allow individuals to live at home while attending treatment.
What are outpatient treatment programs?
Our efforts aim to reach at least this many youth through evidence-based programs.
What is 2,250 youth?
This iconic venue, opened in 1892, is known as the “Mother Church of Country Music.”
What is the Ryman Auditorium?
The U.S. public health strategy framework that moves from clinical care to a broader population-level approach is known as this.
What is Public Health 3.0?
This is the legal term often cited to protect naloxone distributors and users from liability.
What is Good Samaritan law?
This term is used to identify an individual suffering from a mental health disorder as well as a substance use disorder.
What is a co-occurring disorders?
An individual is at greatest risk of overdose during this time.
What is immediately after detox (due to reduced tolerance)?
Just west of downtown Nashville, this neighborhood is famous for music venues, and nightlife.
What is The Gulch?
This term describes inequities in health outcomes that result from systemic social and economic factors.
What is health disparity?
Harm reduction refers to strategies designed to reduce injury, death, or negative outcomes from risky behaviors. Name four examples of harm reduction strategies across any discipline.
What are seatbelts, helmets, bulletproof vests, life jackets, Airbags, Knee/elbow pads (sports, skating), Guardrails / barriers on roads, Smoke detectors / fire alarms, etc.?
This type of care ensures individuals move from detox to treatment to recovery without falling through gaps.
What is continuity of care?
This document outlines workflows, roles, and procedures for the OSOC team.
What are the Standard Operating Procedures (SOPs)?
The bridge that connects Nashville to the west side across the Cumberland River.
What is the John Seigenthaler Pedestrian Bridge?