History of PH
This disease was responsible for several pandemics, including a very devastating one in the mid to late 1300s.
What is the bubonic plague?
Was observed in the western hemisphere for the first time in August 1999, in New York City
What is West Nile Virus
He is considered the father of modern epidemiology, largely for his examination of disease frequency and distribution during a series of cholera outbreaks.
Who is John Snow?
This is referred to as complete resistance to a specific disease.
What is immunity?
Any planned combination of educational, political, environmental, regulatory or organizational mechanisms that support actions and conditions conducive to the health of individuals, groups or communities.
What is health promotion?
A set of 282 laws that predates the bible.
What is the Code of Hammurabi?
This model for looking at infectious diseases is composed of agent, host and disease.
What is the epidemiologic triangle?
A popular way to study rates of disease by charting an axis of cases against an axis representing time, described with names like 'point source' and 'propagated.'
What is an epidemic curve?
This categorical determinant of health for the adult population includes both microorganisms that cause harm and products that may protect us from disease.
What is biological?
These health promotion goals are measurable, achievable, time-oriented, realistic and simple.
What are SMART goals?
A phase of the Modern Era of Public Health that was characterized by investments in public health.
What is the Health Resources phase?
This is the habitat in which a disease causing agent lives, grows and multiplies.
What is a reservoir?
This is described as the number of existing cases of disease in a population at a point in time.
What is a prevalence rate?
These chronic illness risks are responsive (amenable) to prevention measures and are often referred to as those risk factors most controllable by individuals.
What are modifiable risk factors?
This health education model directs one's attention to a behavior, and its individual and environmental determinants, including the intrapersonal, interpersonal, institutional, community and public policy levels.
What is the ecological perspective model?
This individual, in 1850, provided the State of Massachusetts with recommendations that would become a template for many public health systems across the country.
Who is Lemuel Shattuck?
This communicable disease is caused by a spirochete bacterium, named Borrelia Burgdorferi.
What is Lyme disease?
This type of epidemiological study tests the efficacy of a drug or other treatment in a very rigidly controlled environment.
What is a clinical trial?
This disease is defined as a narrowing of the coronary arteries, often by the formation of plaque, which reduces bloodflow to the heart (please be specific).
What is coronary heart disease?
This health education model assesses the needs of a target group by determining the scope of the assessment, gathering and analyzing data, recognizing causative factors, identifying a focus for the health education program and validating the need for the assessment.
What is the generalized model?
Two major changes in early public health that coincided with the downfall of the Roman Empire included the advent of quarantine and this practice.
What is quarantine?
An inanimate object causing vehicle borne disease transmission, which may include a doorknob or desktop.
What is a fomite?
This type of study is prospective, is based on exposure status and utilizes relative risk as a rate to calculate the association between an exposure and a disease/health outcome.
What is a cohort study?
This is the most common cancer cause of death, by body site, for women.
What is lung cancer?
This health promotion model helps one understand how people change behavior through the steps of pre-contemplation, contemplation, preparation, action, maintenance, and possibly a relapse/re-occurence of the problem.
What is the stages of change model?