Public Health 101
This person founded the school of medicine at Yale and is credited for writing the first definition of public health.
Who is Charles-Edward Amory Winslow?
This food can cause oxidative stress that could precipitate a G6PD hemolytic crisis.
What is fava beans
A body mass index (BMI) of 27 kg/m2 falls into which BMI category?
What is overweight?
Which model of health behavior change incorporates self-efficacy?
What is the Health Belief Model?
This fat-soluble vitamin is considered to be 'conditionally essential'
What is Vitamin D?
This person is credited for introducing antisepsis (hand washing with a chlorinated lime solution) that decrease post-partum maternal death rates.
Who is Ignaz Semmelweis?
This condition of problems with dairy rarely occurs in patients under age 6.
What is lactose intolerance
Name a risk factor for the development of atherosclerosis
What is hyperlipidemia/obesity/smoking/hypertension?
This pollutant is made up of nitrogen oxides, air pollutants and sunlight?
What is ozone?
After a total gastrectomy, a patient will need lifetime supplementation of this vitamin.
What is vitamin B12/cobalamin/cyanocobalamin
What are the 3 Core Functions of Public Health?
1. Assessment
2. Policy and Development
3. Assurance
In celiac disease antibodies are formed against what component of gluten?
What is Gliadin
Your patient has a BMI of 30 kg/m2 and has not tried anything yet to lose weight. This is your initial recommendation.
What is diet and exercise?
Who is the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA)?
This vitamin is rarely deficient in resource-rich countries and is the leading cause of night blindness.
What is Vitamin A?
Blood pressure screening is an example of what type of prevention?
What is secondary prevention?
A hallmark lab finding in Paget's disease of bone.
What is isolated alkaline phosphatase elevation?
An infant is born who is failing to thrive, irritable, and has a mousy body and urine odor. This is the most likely diagnosis.
What is Phenylketonuria (PKU)?
Which organization monitors standards in quality patient care and safety by providing accreditation in hospitals?
Who is The Joint Commission on Accreditation of Healthcare Organization (JCAHO)?
This letter grade by the United States Preventive Services Task Force (USPSTF) means "recommended against."
What is the letter "D?"
This effect or consequence can be displayed as a cost or numerical value.
What is burden?
These are inclusions within red blood cells composed of denatured hemoglobin.
What are Heinz bodies?
This bariatric surgery technique can result in up to 70% weight loss after 2 years.
What is a roux-en-Y ?
While visiting her grandmother for the weekend, a child swallowed her eight (8) Tylenol #3, her grandmother's narcotic pain medication. What route of exposure is this?
What is ingestion?
The United States Department of Health and Human Service's Office of Disease Prevention and Health Promotion puts out national health goals as objectives every decade and monitors the progress through what?
What is Healthy People 2030?