Public Health Exam 3 Pt. 1

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Across
  1. 4. both the patient and the doctor are blind as to whether the patient is receiving a drug or a placebo in a clinical trial.
  2. 5. analysis: an economic analysis in which all costs and benefits are converted into monetary values and results are expressed as dollars of benefit per dollar expended.
  3. 6. variables: a factor or explanation other than the one being studied that may affect a result or conclusion.
  4. 8. present at birth
  5. 9. group: a group of individuals used by an experimenter as a standard for comparison
  6. 10. relationship: the relationship between the dose of some agent, or the extent of some exposure, and a physiological response.
  7. 11. the relationship between two or more events or variables.
  8. 12. risk factor surveillance survey (BRFSS): A system of health-related telephone surveys that college state data about U.S. residents regarding their health-related risk behaviors, chronic health conditions, and use of preventive services.
  9. 13. functions of public health: three basic tasks performed by public health agencies to ensure conditions in which people can be healthy.
  10. 14. to health care: the potential for timely use of medical services to achieve the best possible health outcomes.
  11. 15. the influence of irrelevant or even spurious factors or associations- commonly called confounding variables- on a result or conclusion
Down
  1. 1. analysis: an economic analysis assessed as health outcome per cost expended.
  2. 2. defect: an abnormality in structure, function, or body metabolism that is present at birth.
  3. 3. rate: a way of comparing two groups that differ in some important variable by mathematically eliminating the effect of that variable.
  4. 6. rate: the actual rate of events in a population, without adjustment
  5. 7. study: a study of a group of people followed over time to see how some disease or diseases develop.
  6. 8. disease: a disease that is marked by long duration or frequent recurrence, usually incurable but not immediately fatal.
  7. 9. study: an epidemiologic study that compares individuals affected by a disease with a comparable group of persons who do not have the disease to seek possible causes or associations.
  8. 12. the removal of a sample of tissue that is then examined under a microscope to check for cancer cells