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?
These are a set of rules that prove an organism causes a particular disease.
What are Koch's postulates?
This accounts for more disability in developed countries than any other illness.
What is mental illness?
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 condition where an individual harbors and can transmit an infectious agent without showing symptoms of the disease.
What is a carrier state?
This is the most prevalent mental health disorder in adults.
What is anxiety?
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?
While these ultimately are unknown, they include at least one, if not a combination of factors, including biological, psychological, and sociocultural.
What are the causes of mental health disorders?
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 required to protect vulnerable individuals from disease.
What is herd immunity?
What is the Healthy Minds Survey?
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
Housing instability, food insecurity, and poverty, are all examples of this, which significantly impacts mental illness.
What is socioeconomic status?
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?