Terms
The science of protecting and improving the health of populations, through the promotion of healthy lifestyles and the prevention of disease and injury, in order to prolong life for all.
What is Public Health?
The year the World Health Organization (WHO) was founded.
What is 1948?
A community resource that offers free or low‑cost mental health support, crisis counseling, and referrals through a 24/7 phone or text service.
What is a crisis hotline?
This is the official name of the piece of legislation commonly referred to as “Obamacare.”
What is the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act?
This term describes a person’s combined income, education, and occupation.
What is socioeconomic status?
Biological, environmental, behavioral, organizational, political, and social factors that contribute to the health status of indidivualds, groups, and communities.
What are health determinants?
This epidemic in the 1850s led John Snow to identify contaminated water as a source of disease.
What is the cholera outbreak?
A public health program that supports low-income women and children with services such as food subsidies, well-child visits, and dental screenings in their community.
What is WIC (Women, Infant, Children)?
At this age, U.S. citizens are eligible for the health insurance program, Medicare.
What is 65?
People with lower SES are more likely to experience this barrier to receiving preventive care.
What is limited access to healthcare?
The number of new and old cases of disease in a population in a given period fo time, divided by the total number in that population.
What is prevalence rate?
The landmark 1964 report that linked cigarette smoking to lung cancer.
What is the Surgeon General’s Report on Smoking and Health?
Leading causes of death for elders
What is heart disease, cancer, and stroke?
The part of the U.S. government responsible for regulating food, drugs, and medical devices.
What is the FDA?
Living below this federal threshold increases risk for chronic disease.
What is the poverty line?
A measure of how many people die in a population during a given time period.
What is mortality rate?
The U.S. federal agency created in 1970 to protect human health and the environment.
What is the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA)?
A model that explains how individual, interpersonal, community, and societal factors influence health behaviors.
What is the socio-ecological model?
This federal agency oversees public health emergencies and disease prevention programs, including immunizations and outbreak response.
What is the Centers of Disease Control and Prevention (CDC)?
SES is considered one of the strongest predictors of this major health outcome.
What is life expectancy?
Most influential single contributor to premature morbidity and mortality by many public heath researchers.
What is socioeconomic status?
The 1918 global health event that killed an estimated 50 million people worldwide.
What is the influenza pandemic?
A long-term, coordinated effort that combines education, policy, and environmental changes to reduce tobacco use in communities.
What is a comprehensive tobacco control program?
This principle ensures that public health laws and policies balance individual rights with the protection of community health.
What is the principle of least infringement?
This concept explains how SES influences health across generations through accumulated advantage or disadvantage.
What is intergenerational mobility?