Key Terms
Ethics of Community Health
Public Health History
Governmental Health Agencies
Determinants of Health
100
Health problems,issues, and concerns that transcend national boundaries.
What is global health?
100
This means doing good for the community.
What is beneficence?
100
Perhaps the earliest written record of public health
What is the Code of Hammurabi?
100
The most widely recognized international governmental health organization
What is the World Health Organization?
100
An example of this can be a person's genetic makeup.
What is gestational endowment?
200
Health status of people who are not organized and have no identity as a group or locality and the actions, and conditions to promote, protect, and preserve their health
What is population health?
200
Individual decision making about health refer to this.
What is autonomy?
200
In 1796, this doctor successfully demonstrated the process of vaccination as protection against smallpox.
Who is Edward Jenner?
200
The primary national health agency in the United States
What is the Department of Health and Human Services?
200
Toxic agents, microbial agents, and structural hazards can all affect this determinant of health.
What is environmental conditions?
300
A group of people who have common characteristics
What is a community?
300
Telling people in a community things that they do not want to hear about health issues refers to this.
Honestly
300
In 1798, this forerunner to the U.S. Public Health Service was formed.
What is the Marine Hospital Service?
300
Division of the HHS responsible for carrying out the provisions of the Older Americans Act of 1965.
What is the Administration on Aging?
300
Diet, physical activity, and substance use all affect this determinant of health.
What are behavioral choices?
400
Organizations that have some official health responsibilities but operate, in part, like voluntary health organizations
What are quasi-governmental agencies?
400
Above all else, do no harm refers to this.
What is nonmaleficence?
400
In 1862, he proposed his germ theory of disease.
Who is Louis Pasteur?
400
This agency was created by the Superfund legislation in 1980.
What is the Agency for Toxic Substances and Disease Registry?
400
Education, employment, income, and housing all affect this determinant of health.
What are social circumstances?
500
State of complete physical, mental, and social well-being
What is health?
500
This refers to the principle of fairness.
What is social justice?
500
In 1965, Congress passed these two bills.
What is Medicare and Medicaid?
500
In 2003, this agency adopted new overarching health protection goals and a new organizational structure.
What is the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention?
500
These types of circumstances affect the nature and consequences of behavioral choices.
What are social circumstances?