Across
- 1. illness - illness caused by the transfer of disease organisms or toxins from food to humans.
- 4. populations - a group of people with certain characteristics that cause them to be at greater risk of having poor health outcomes. These characteristics include, but are not limited to, age, culture, disability, education, ethnicity, health insurance, housing status, income, mental health, and race.
- 6. - a state of dysfunction of organs or organ systems that can result in diminished quality of life.
- 9. - prevalent in or peculiar to a particular locality or people.
- 11. - the action of restoring someone to health or normal life through training and therapy after imprisonment, addiction, or illness.
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- 2. - the occurrence of more cases of disease than would normally be expected in a specific place or group of people over a given period of time.
- 3. - a group of cases of a specific disease or illness clearly in excess of what one would normally expect in a particular geographic area.
- 5. factor - an extrinsic factor (e.g., geology, climate, insects, sanitation, health services, etc.) that affects the agent and the opportunity for exposure.
- 7. - The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) is part of the Department of Health and Human Services. It provides federal leadership and funding in the prevention and control of diseases.
- 8. indicator - a measure that reflects or indicates the state of health in a defined population, such as the infant mortality rate.
- 10. disease - a disease that has one or more of the following characteristics: it is permanent, leaves residual disability, is caused by a nonreversible pathological alteration, requires special training of the patient for rehabilitation, or may be expected to require a long period of supervision, observation or care.