Introduction to Public Health

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Across
  1. 2. What population-level intervention was first introduced in Grand Rapids to prevent tooth decay?
  2. 5. What Roman structures, including the Aqua Appia, supplied clean water?
  3. 7. During an outbreak, which stakeholder confirms the agent by testing samples?
  4. 10. What did Hippocrates emphasize as a cause of disease instead of supernatural explanations?
  5. 11. What term describes factors such as income, education, housing and environment that contribute to health outcomes?
  6. 13. Which step asks why a health problem occurs and identifies who is affected?
  7. 14. Using evidence to create plans, laws and priorities represents which core function?
  8. 20. At which level of influence do family, peers and social support shape health habits?
  9. 21. What water treatment introduced in Jersey City in 1908 sharply reduced typhoid?
  10. 23. What institutions in the Islamic world provided care to the public around Ibn Sina’s era?
  11. 24. What pre-vaccine practice against smallpox was used in China, India and the Ottoman Empire?
  12. 25. Screening for cancer and hypertension belongs to which level of prevention?
Down
  1. 1. Which step asks “What works?” and involves designing and evaluating solutions?
  2. 3. A health department measuring teenage smoking rates is performing which core Public Health function?
  3. 4. Robert Koch’s identification of the organisms causing tuberculosis and cholera helped establish what scientific field?
  4. 6. Which stakeholders are expected to detect unusual cases and report them during an outbreak?
  5. 8. Vaccination clinics that ensure children can receive immunizations illustrate which core function?
  6. 9. Which Public Health core science manages and shares health data?
  7. 12. Which step of the Public Health approach puts interventions shown to work into practice?
  8. 15. What concept concerning disease transmission was described in Ibn Sina’s Canon of Medicine?
  9. 16. What control strategy evolved in Ragusa from a 30-day isolation period to 40 days?
  10. 17. Bradford Hill’s criteria help determine whether an observed association can be considered what?
  11. 18. Which study identified cardiovascular risk factors such as blood pressure and cholesterol?
  12. 19. Complete the modern Public Health challenge highlighted by UN leaders in 2016: ______ resistance.
  13. 22. What approach links human, animal and environmental health to prevent emerging outbreaks?