PHEAL 201: Schneider Chapter 1 Vocabulary

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Across
  1. 2. Terrorism involving the release of toxic biological agents.
  2. 6. Any planned combination of educational, political, regulatory, and organizational supports for actions and conditions of living conducive to the health of individuals, groups, or communities.
  3. 8. One of the three core functions of public health as specified by The Future of Public Health. The process by which a public health agency ensures its constituents that services necessary to achieve agreed-upon goals are provided, either by encouraging actions by other entities (private or public sectors), by requiring such action through regulation, or by providing services directly.
  4. 9. A specific group of people, often living in a defined geographical area, who share a common culture, values, and norms and are arranged in a social structure according to relationships the community has developed over a period of time.
  5. 10. As defined by the World Health Organization, a state of physical, mental, and social well-being and not merely the absence of disease and infirmity.
  6. 11. As a scientific discipline or method, a way of gathering and analyzing data to extract information, seek causation, and calculate probabilities.
Down
  1. 1. Activities intended to reduce prior to start (primary), progression (secondary), or reverse disability/injury (tertiary)
  2. 3. Results of healthcare interventions.
  3. 4. The study of populations to seek the causes of health and disease; the study of the distribution and determinants of disease frequency in human populations.
  4. 5. One of the three core functions of public health as specified by The Future of Public Health. The process by which a public health agency exercises its responsibility to serve the public interest in the development of comprehensive public health policies by promoting use of scientific knowledge in decision making about public health and by leading in developing public health policy. Agencies must take a strategic approach, developed on the basis of a positive appreciation for the democratic political process.
  5. 7. One of the three core functions of public health as specified by The Future of Public Health. The process by which a public health agency regularly and systematically collects, assembles, analyzes, and makes available information on the health of a community, including statistics on health status, community health needs, and epidemiologic and other studies of health problems.
  6. 12. A generic term used in public health to describe a program or policy designed to have an impact on a health problem.