Chapter 1 Key Terms

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Across
  1. 4. Established in 1948 by the United Nations to direct and coordinate international health within the UN system.
  2. 7. What society does collectively to ensure the conditions for people to be healthy.
  3. 8. The collaborative transnational research and action for promoting health for all.
  4. 9. Group of individuals living within the same geographical area or who share some other common denominator.
  5. 11. Focuses on the systematic collection, analysis, and monitoring of health problems and needs.
  6. 14. Acknowledges that comprehensive knowledge of the multitude of diverse global cultures in the world today may be impossible.
  7. 15. Categorizes groups of people based off of superficial criteria.
  8. 16. Relates to assuring constituents that public health agencies provide services necessary to achieve agreed-upon goals.
Down
  1. 1. The attitudes, knowledge, and skills used to provide quality care to culturally diverse populations.
  2. 2. Refers to a larger group whose members may or may not interact with one another but who share at least one characteristic.
  3. 3. Refers to using scientific knowledge to develop comprehensive public health policies.
  4. 5. Having a shared geographical origin, language or dialect, religious faith, folklore, food preferences, or culture.
  5. 6. The practice of promoting and protecting the health of populations using knowledge from nursing, social, and public health sciences.
  6. 10. Represents individual units brought together into a whole or sum of those individuals.
  7. 12. The languages, customs, beliefs, rules, arts, knowledge, and collective identities and memories developed by members of all social groups that make their social environments meaningful.
  8. 13. Founded in 1946 out of wartime efforts to control malaria who now serves to protect America from health, safety, and security threats.