Public Health Peeps
Infectious Diseases
In The Public Eye
Risky Behavior
Definitions
100

He's known as the father of medicine.

Who is "Hippocrates"

100

When this disease first emerged in the early ‘80s, the major risk groups were known as the 4 H’s (heroin users, Haitians, homosexuals and hemophiliacs).

What is "HIV/AIDS"?

100

This law sparked debate between policymakers and religious leaders due to the so-called “birth control mandate”.

What is "Obamacare/Affordable Care Act"?

100

Inactivity & poor eating habits put individuals at risk for this leading cause of death in the U.S.

What is "high blood pressure, hypertension"?


100

Populations with barriers to the health care system including the uninsured, the underinsured, and socially disadvantaged people.

What are "Vulnerable Populations"?

200

He's known as the father of epidemiology because of his work mapping cholera outbreaks in London.

Who is "John Snow"?

200

Frighteningly, both drug resistant & extremely drug - resistant strains of this infectious disease have been identified.

What is "Tuberculosis"?

200

This epidemic receives EPIC AMOUNTS of media attention, perhaps because it relates to our not-so-healthy cultural obsession with a certain body tissue...

What is the "Obesity Epidemic"?

200

This “condition” could be called a leading risk factor for a large number of health problems - including obesity, diabetes, and asthma.

What is "Poverty"?

200

Diseases that are usually transmitted through person-to-person contact or shared use of contaminated instruments/materials.  

What is a "Communicable Disease"? 

300

This American founded the American Red Cross (and has a school in Minneapolis named after her).

Who is "Clara Barton"?

300

This tiny creature is responsible for sleeping sickness - a disease endemic to Sub-Saharan Africa.

What is the "Tse-Tse Fly"?

300

These public health measures have received bad press in recent decades, due to a now-debunked study that linked them autism.

What are "VACCINES/IMMUNIZATIONS"?

300

Binge drinking is a persistent problem, especially on college campuses - binge drinking is defined as having this number of drinks in a sitting.

What is "four for women, five for men?"

Enough alcohol to raise BAC level to >.08%

300

This term represents the incidence or prevalence of a disease in a population.

What is "Morbidity"?

400

The founder of modern nursing, she got her start tending wounded soldiers during the Crimean war.

Who is "Florence Nightingale"?

400

in the early 1900s, the spread of this infectious disease was attributed to an Irish cook, after several of her employers fell ill. the cook was perfectly healthy; but died in quarantine in 1838.

What is "Typhoid"?


400

In February 2021, it was revealed that what governor had lied about the number of COVID-19 deaths in New York nursing homes, not long after publishing a book subtitled "Leadership Lessons from the COVID-19 Pandemic?"

Who is "Andrew Cuomo"?

400

A recent study linked this risky behavior to slowed or impaired bone growth in young women - this activity was also associated with higher rates of depression.

What is "Smoking"?

400

A state of complete physical, mental, and social well-being, and not merely the absence of disease or infirmity.

What is "Health"?

500

In 1928, was the first to demonstrate the antibacterial properties of penecillin.

Who is "Sir Alexander Fleming"?

500

After controversially having herself and her son Paul inoculated in 1768, Catherine the Great supported the idea of a widespread inoculation campaign throughout the Russian Empire against which disease?

What is "Smallpox"?

500

Several public health workers were recently killed in Pakistan, effectively ending a campaign to prevent this disease - once a major issue in the U.S. but now only endemic in Afghanistan, Nigeria, and Pakistan.

What is "Polio"?

500

It may seem benign, but studies suggest this very common activity WILL KILL YOU - or at least significantly raise your risk of health problems.

What is "Sitting"?

500

When the occurrence of a disease exceeds the normal rate.

What is an "Epidemic?"