Germs & Getting Sick
What is one of the simplest and best ways to prevent germs from spreading?
What is hand washing?
Fever, coughing, vomiting, and a sore throat are examples of these clues that can help public health workers understand an illness.
What are symptoms?
Clean drinking water, safe parks, and healthy food options are examples of things that can affect this.
What is Community Health?
You can get sunburned even when it’s cloudy outside.
What is Fact? UV rays can pass through clouds and still reach your skin.
During a power outage, using this instead of candles is a safer way to see in the dark and lowers the risk of a fire.
What is a flashlight?
What is the medicine that trains your immune system to fight off specific diseases before you even get sick?
What is a vaccine?
A public health detective notices that most people who got sick attended the same event. This pattern can help them identify a possible ____ of the illness.
What is a source?
This public health professional teaches people about healthy behaviors, disease prevention, and ways to improve their health.
What is a health educator?
If you swallow chewing gum, it stays in your stomach for seven years.
What is Myth? Your body can’t fully digest gum, but it usually passes through your digestive system and leaves your body within a few days.
This is a collection of important supplies your family can use during an emergency, such as water, food, flashlights, and first-aid supplies.
What is an emergency kit?
This word describes a disease that can be spread from person to person.
What is contagious?
This career involves investigating patterns of disease and figuring out how illnesses spread through populations.
What is epidemiology?
This local organization helps protect community health by providing services like vaccinations, health education, and disease prevention.
What is a health department?
You can get sick from being outside in the cold.
What is Myth? Being in the cold doesn't directly cause infection, infections are caused by germs!
If a hurricane or other emergency requires you to leave your home, knowing where you will go and how you will get there is part of having this.
What is an evacuation plan?
Unlike bacteria, these germs cannot reproduce on their own and need a host cell to invade and infect.
What is a virus?
This public health career involves checking things like restaurants, drinking water, and environmental conditions to help keep communities safe.
What is environmental health?
This community place may provide meals or groceries to families who need extra help getting food.
What is a food pantry?
You can spread some illnesses to other people without even realizing you are sick.
What is Fact? Some infections can be contagious before symptoms even appear.
This person should live outside your area and can help your family communicate if local phone lines are busy.
What is an emergency contact?
When more people than expected in a certain place become sick with the same disease, public health workers call this an ______?
What is an outbreak?
Five students at a school get sick after eating the same meal. A public health detective would look for this common connection.
What is a common exposure?
A community without nearby doctors, clinics, or hospitals may have a harder time getting this when people are sick or injured.
What is healthcare?
Public health focuses more on treating individual people than preventing health problems across a community.
What is Myth? Public health focuses on preventing disease, promoting healthy behaviors, and protecting the health and safety of entire communities
During some emergencies, officials may tell you to stay inside instead of evacuating. This safety action is called this.
What is sheltering in place?