Environmental Health
This type of public space, featuring trees and gardens, helps with both air purification and the mental well-being of residents.
What are green spaces?
This is a serious disruption of the functioning of a community or a society due to hazardous events interacting with conditions of exposure, vulnerability, and capacity.
What is a disaster?
This is a factor that increases the likelihood of developing a chronic disease
What is a risk factor?
This is the most important predictor of health
What is socioeconomic status?
This describes the normal, predictable rate of disease in a population.
What is endemic?
These installations on a building's roof, which convert sunlight into electricity, are a common feature of sustainable design.
What are solar panels?
This a potential threat either natural or man-made
What is a hazard?
This is the study launched in 1948 that sought to identify factors contributing to the development of cardiovascular disease
What is the Framingham Heart Study?
These are non-medical factors that affect health outcomes
What are social determinants of health?
This term is used to describe new cases of disease in a population of interest.
What is incidence?
Properly separating waste into these two types of bins helps reduce landfill use and environmental pollution.
What are recycling and trash bins?
This step of a disaster plan takes place before a disaster occurs
What is prevention and mitigation?
This is the main type of action public health can take when dealing with infectious disease.
What is interrupting the chain of infection?
This is the main assessment and epidemiological agency for the US
What is the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC)?
This measure of association describes the likelihood of having a prior exposure, given an illness.
What is odd's ratio?
Walking, biking, and using this shared system are all ways to reduce your environmental footprint compared to driving a car alone.
What is public transportation?
One of the ways in which disasters affect individuals unequally involving impacts to a persons financial resilience
This is the level of prevention often effective for managing chronic disease risk factors
What is secondary prevention?
These preventable differences in health outcomes that affect certain groups of people more than others
What are health disparities?
This measure of association describes risk of developing a disease, given exposure.
What is relative risk?
This numerical value, often found on a city website or app, tells you how clean or polluted your air is on a given day.
What is the Air Quality Index (AQI)?
This is a tenet of equity-centered disaster response defined by systems that account for the most vulnerable, so actions ultimately benefit everyone
What is universal design?
These are major contributors to emerging infectious diseases (name at least two).
What are...
Human activities causing ecological damage and close contact with wildlife
Modern agricultural practices
International travel
International distribution of food and exotic animals
Breakdown of social restraints on sexual behavior and intravenous drug use
The diagnostic function, in which a public health agency collects, assembles, analyzes, and makes available information on the health of the population
What is the assessment function of public health?
This study design classifies participants based on their exposure status, and follows them to determine whether an outcome occurs or not.
What is a cohort study?