Epidemiology
The study of how diseases spread and can be controlled.
What is Epidemiology ?
This is a shot that helps your body fight off specific diseases.
What is a vaccine?
This vitamin, found in citrus fruits, helps prevent scurvy.
What is vitamin C?
This disease caused a global pandemic in 1918.
What is the Spanish Flu?
This U.S. agency monitors and prevents disease outbreaks and health threats domestically.
What is the CDC (Centers for Disease Control and Prevention)?
The number of new cases of a disease in a population over a period of time?
What is Incidence ?
This vaccine prevents a virus that attacks the liver.
What is the hepatitis B vaccine?
Body Mass Index (BMI) is used to measure this.
What is body fat or obesity?
HIV/AIDS was first recognized in this decade.
What is the 1980s?
This international organization coordinates global public health efforts and sets guidelines for disease prevention.
What is the WHO (World Health Organization)?
John Snow is famous for mapping cases of the 1854 outbreak of this specific disease
What is cholera ?
This is the type of immunity you get after recovering from a disease.
What is natural immunity?
Consuming too much of this nutrient can raise cholesterol levels.
What is saturated fat?
This mosquito-borne virus caused major outbreaks in the Americas in 2015–2016.
What is the Zika Virus?
This U.S. agency funds and conducts medical research to improve public health.
What is the NIH (National Institutes of Health)?
A measure used to compare the likelihood of disease in an exposed group versus an unexposed group.
What is Relative Risk (RR) ?
The first vaccine ever developed, by Edward Jenner, targeted this disease.
What is smallpox?
The WHO recommends at least this many minutes of moderate-intensity physical activity per week for adults
What is 150 minutes?
This is the term for a disease that spreads across countries or worldwide, affecting a large number of people.
What is a Pandemic?
This U.S. agency regulates vaccines, medications, and food safety.
What is the FDA (Food and Drug Administration)?
This study design follows a group of people over time to observe outcomes.
What is a Cohort Study ?
The HPV vaccine helps prevent these types of cancer.
What are cervical and other HPV-related cancers?
This type of vitamin dissolves in fat and can be stored in the body for long periods.
What is a fat-soluble vitamin?
This virus causes a severe hemorrhagic fever and was first identified in a river basin in Africa.
What is the Ebola Virus?
This U.S. office tracks and funds programs for maternal and child health, nutrition, and chronic disease prevention.
What is the HRSA (Health Resources and Services Administration)?