Public Health Crossword

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Across
  1. 2. health focusing on prevention, ensuring the health of entire populations.
  2. 3. form of contraceptive that is, other than abstinence, the most effective form of protection from sexually transmitted diseases.
  3. 4. a widespread occurrence of an infectious disease in a community at a particular time.
  4. 7. public health initiative to target water, which lowered the rates of cavities nationwide.
  5. 9. administration of a weakened or inactive virus, highly important in the global elimination of smallpox.
  6. 11. abbreviation for the Supplemental Nutrition Program for Women, Infants, and Children.
  7. 13. one of the largest public health issues worldwide and responsible for a variety of health afflictions including type II diabetes and heart disease.
Down
  1. 1. where we live, eat, and breathe, we are only as healthy as this.
  2. 5. unbreakable material that replaced glass in many instances, leading to more durable containers.
  3. 6. found on rats, the vehicle for Bubonic or black plague that ravaged Europe during the 14th century.
  4. 8. action taken to improve a situation, especially a medical disorder.
  5. 10. change worsened by the burning of fossil fuels, resulting in large changes in temperature and environment.
  6. 12. disease the leading cause of death in America. Risk Factors include old age, high blood pressure, ad smoking.