Public Health vocabulary

4. a supposedly ineffective pill or agent use in a control group to gauge the effect of an actual treatment in another group.
6. divisions of a simple into two or more comparable groups by some random method that eliminates biased selection.
8. a state of physical, mental, and social well-being and not merely the absence of disease and infirmity
9. a very small pathogen that is not capable of independent metabolism and can reproduce only inside living things
10. reduction of a person's capacity to function in society.
11. of the improvement in health outcomes that a strategy can produce in a typical community-based setting.
12. the occurrence in a community or geographic area of a distance at a rate that clearly exceeds the normally expected rate.
14. a measure of the number of new cases occurring in a population within a given amount of time, usually a year

1. a calculation of what may be expected based on what has happened in the past under similar condition
2. the relationship between two or more events or variables.
3. is a specific group of people, often living in a defined geographical area who share a common culture, values, and norms
4. proportion of persons in a population who have a particular disease or attribute at a specific point in time or during a specified time period
5. a generic term used in public health to describe a program or policy designed to have an impact on a health problem
7. a way of gathering and analyzing data to extract info, seek causation, and calculate probabilities
13. is the study of populations to seek the causes of health and disease
15. unintentional or intentional damage to the body resulting from acute exposure to thermal, mechanical, electrical, or chemical energy.