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