Public Health 101
The definition of public health.
What is the science of protecting the health of people and their communities?
Engineer who designed the sewers that are still in use today
Who is Joseph Bazelgette?
The type of vaccine from Moderna and Pfizer.
What is an mRNA vaccine?
Developed the vaccine against cholera, anthrax and rabies
The longest bone of the body
What is your Femur?
The six social determinants of health
Social activist known for creating and leading The Co-operative Women's Guild in 1883
Who is Lady Alice Acland?
Indirect protection from a disease based upon a large number of the population having the antibodies for that disease.
What is herd immunity?
Lifesaving medication that can impact the Opioid overdose epidemic.
What is Naloxone (or Narcan)?
The largest organ of the human body.
What is your skin?
The five P's of Public Health
What are Prevention, Promotion, Protection, Population and Preparedness?
Prime Minister who played a central role in the creation of the modern Conservative Party and is known for their influential voice in the world such as passing The Artisan's Dwellings Act of 1875
Who is Benjamin Disraeli?
The type of vaccine from Johnson & Johnson
What is an adenovirus vaccine?
The time when the AIDS epidemic started in the United States.
What is the 1980's and 90's?
12610 + 5558
What is 18168?
The public health hero often known as the father of epidemiology, for his theories on the spread of cholera in the 1800's.
Who is Dr. John Snow?
Act that prohibits the sale of foods with harmful ingredients in
What is The Pure Food and Drug Act?
The gold standard for clinical diagnostic detection of SARS-CoV-2
What is a PCR/NAAT COVID-19 Test?
This epidemic ravaged West Africa from 2014-16, with symptoms of fever and internal bleeding. It was also the focus of the book The Hot Zone.
What is Ebola?
Use tests and evaluations to detect, diagnose, and treat diseases, injuries, or other physical conditions.
What is Diagnostic Services?
The principals of Public Health
What are assessment, policy development and assurance?
Edwin Chadwick believed in the theory that we should give equal moral consideration to the well-being of all individuals
What is Utilitarianism?
An acute allergic reaction to an antigen to which the body has become hypersensitive
What is anaphylaxis?
This epidemic broke out in New York between 1906-1907, caused by a type of bacteria called Salmonella typhi
What is Typhoid fever?
Segment of workforce that delivers services involving the identification, evaluation and prevention of diseases and disorders.
What is the Allied Health?