Exam 1 Review

2. How many key determinants of health?
4. a calculation using number of events in a given population over a given period of time or given point in time
6. basic science of public health; who, what, when, how of disease
8. diseases for which biological agents or their products are the cause and that are transmissible from one individual to another
9. Most inclusive term to define the actions that society takes collectively to ensure that the conditions in which people can be healthy can occur
12. a type of rate that is considered the most reliable measure of population health
14. approach used to take into account the interconnectedness of several social contexts
15. health _______: any combination of learning experiences using evidence-based practices for individuals to adopt or maintain health behaviors
16. program that a priority population will experience in an effort to control and/or change a disease or health event in progress

1. bacteria, viruses, and fungi are examples of which causative substance
3. refers to disease that occurs regularly in a population
5. the largest governmental health agency (acronym)
6. in the chain of infection, a disease-producing agent leaves its reservoir through a portal of _________
7. Level of prevention that applies significant treatment or measures once disease already exists
9. type of rate that is useful in the study of chronic diseases
10. the father of epidemiology
11. another term to define communicable diseases
13. defined as the number of components or activities that make up an intervention