Famous Figures
This nurse, teacher, and humanitarian is best known for founding the American Red Cross.
Who was Clara Barton?
This is the federal law that protects health information privacy and security for patients.
What is HIPAA?
This medication designed to control blood sugar went viral this year.
What is Ozempic?
A _______ is the compulsory physical separation or confinement of individuals and/or groups, animals, or the enforced restraint of transport of goods in order to prevent or limit the spread of disease or disease vectors.
What is a Quarantine?
Besides abstinence, this form of contraception is the most effective way to protect against STIs.
What is a condom?
This person is known as "the father of epidemiology", gaining the title after helping to squash a cholera outbreak in 1850's London.
Who was John Snow?
The headquarters for this global health policy organization are located in Geneva, Switzerland.
What is the World Health Organization?
The convergence of two "atmospheric rivers" have caused record rainfall in this state, resulting in flash floods, mudslides, and hurricane-force winds.
An _____ or outbreak is the widespread occurrence of an undesirable health outcome or disease across a community or region.
What is an Epidemic?
What is smallpox?
This person is best known for their discovery of penicillin, which opened the door for the discovery of many more antibiotics.
Who was Alexander Fleming?
This public insurance program was created in 1965 to provide coverage for the elderly and disabled.
What is Medicare?
In 2023, a heart from this animal was successfully transplanted into a human for the second time ever.
What is a pig?
_____ is the measure of the incidence of deaths in a population
What is Mortality?
Chicken eggs are often used to develop this yearly vaccine.
What is the influenza vaccine (flu shot)?
This person was a famous historian, sociologist, and activist who highlighted the importance of the social and health consequences of racism and discrimination against African Americans.
Who was W.E.B. DuBois?
This 1906 book exposed the horrifying conditions in America's meat industry and led to the formation of the first food safety laws.
What is "The Jungle" by Upton Sinclair?
A new report has shown that cases of this STD are the highest they have been since 1950.
What is syphillis?
_____ are points of reference or a standard against which measurements can be compared.
What are Benchmarks?
This term describes a pathogen that spreads disease by infecting a host through close contact, and is also the name of a 2011 movie starring Kate Winslet.
What is Contagion?
This person is currently serving as the Surgeon General of the United States, and has declared an epidemic of loneliness.
Who is Vice Admiral Vivek H. Murthy, MD?
This 2022 Supreme Court case ruled that there was no constitutional right to abortion and overruled Roe v. Wade.
What is Dobbs v. Jackson Women's Health Organization?
This disease has recently made a comeback in the U.S., despite a vaccine being available.
What is measles?
____________ are the conditions in which people are born, grow, work, live, and age, and the wider set of forces and systems shaping the conditions of daily life.
What are the Social Determinants of Health?
In 1982, seven deaths resulted from the lacing of this over-the-counter medicine, leading to the standardization of "tamper-proof" medication packaging.
What is Tylenol?