Intro To Public Health
The science and art of preventing disease, prolonging life, and promoting health through organized efforsta nd informed choices of society, organizations, public and private communities, and individuals.
What is Public Health?
These are tiny shots that help protect you from getting sick by teaching your body to fight germs.
Whar are vaccines?
Public health campaigns encouraged people to stop doing this dangerous habit linked to lung cancer.
What is smoking?
The three levels of prevention
What are Primary, Secondary, and Tertiary?
They ensure our water, air, and food are clean and safe.
What is an Environmental Health worker?
Public health workers protect people of all ages, but especially these groups who may need extra care.
What are children and the elderly?
What is the national public health agency of the United States.
What is the CDC?
(True or False) Exercise, sleep, and good food are all part of public health.
What is True?
When public health workers teach people about healthy living, this is called ________.
What is health education?
They help create laws and rules that protect people’s health, like anti-smoking laws or clean water rules.
What is a policy advisor?
Public health teams create these special locations where people can get food, water, and medical help after a disaster.
What is emergency shelters?
In 1994, the FDA apporved the first oral tests for this virus.
What are HIV/AIDS?
(True or False) Public health only helps people who are already sick.
What is False?
Identify problems related to the public's health, and measure their extent.
What is Assessment?
They use math to study health trends and help predict disease outbreaks.
What is a Biostatistician?
This is the leading cause of death in the U.S.
What is cardiovascular disease?
This man is best known for his work tracing the cholera outbreak and considered the father of epidemiology.
Who is John Snow?
These help the body learn how to defend itself from disease without the dangers of a full-blown infection.
What are vaccines?
Prioritize problems, find possible solutions, set regulations to achieve change, and predict the effect on the population.
What is Policy Development?
This type of doctor studies groups of people to understand how diseases spread.
What is an Epidemiologist?
This is the most important factor in someone's health.
What is socioeconomic status?
This man created the virst vaccine to fight smallpox.
Who is Edward Jenner?
This measure describes the likelihood that anyone with positive exposure will develop a condition compared to someone without exposure
What is relative risk?
Provide services as determined by policy, ensure that the population can access them, and monitor compliance.
What is Assurance?
These professionals track disease outbreaks and give health advice to the public.
What are Public Health officials?