The name of the famous Supreme Court Case that stands for the idea that the federal government can get the states to build or buy things by directing how federal funds are spent?
What is South Dakota v. Dole?
100
This decreased significantly in Helena, Montana when an smoke-free indoor air law was adopted.
What is heart attacks?
100
Of the 10 great achievements of public health in the last decade, the number that relied on policy change to achieve impact on population health?
What is 10?
100
The three branches of government
What are Legislative, Judicial, and Executive?
200
The amendment reserves powers to the states?
What is the 10th amendment?
200
Before a piece of legislation is a law, it is a?
What is a bill?
200
The name of the approach you would use to know what the laws are in all 50 states on vaccination?
What is a 50 state comparative policy analysis?
200
The federal law that will ensure 93% of people in the US have health insurance by the end of 2014
What is Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act?
200
the highest court in the land
What is the Supreme Court?
300
The amendments that prevents the state and federal government from infringing on your rights without due process of law?
What are the 5th and 14th amendments?
300
The name of the law that executive branch agencies must follow when making rules and regulations?
What is the Administrative Procedures Act?
300
What kind of study design provides you with the most comprehensive approach to measuring policy change?
What a mixed methods approach?
300
All the things we do as a society to assure the conditions that allow people to be healthy
What is the Institute of Medicine's definition of public health?
300
the person that the Secretary of Health and Human Services reports to
What is the President of the United States?
400
When you use a large and diverse group of non-technical experts to urge policy-makers to vote for change?
What is a grassroots campaign?
400
These types of variables make it difficult to measure whether a policy to change school foods is contributing to weight loss in school children?
What is a confounding variable?
400
Treating a certain kind of disease or illness as special under the law
What is exceptionalism?
400
the legal term for the relationship between the states and the federal government
What is federalism?
500
The legal term for the rights that would be reviewed with strict scutiny by the Supreme Court if a state interfered with them?
What are fundamental rights?
500
The legal advocacy strategy or technique used when the states took the tobacco companies to court to try to recover money for lost Medicaid costs.
What is litigation?
500
To measure the impact of a law or policy, you need these two things
What is 1) an adopted law/policy, and 2) health outcome data?
500
When a group of people share in a resource and deplete it
What is the Tragedy of the Commons?
500
Laws made by the executive branch of government
What is administrative laws (also acceptable: rules and regulations)?