Exam 3: Information Technology in Public Health

A/An ________ is "an excess in the number of cases of a given health problem. . . ."

________ first appeared in the 1930s. It is a form of encephalitis or brain inflammation.

On April 20, 2010, an explosion in the Gulf of Mexico killed 11 human beings. Among the first effects was the spill of tens of thousands of barrels of ________ a day into the Gulf effectively polluting the water, damaging the shoreline, and killing wildlife.

________ (a deadly bacterium resistant to antibiotics) can cause pneumonia, bloodstream infections, and infections in wounds and surgical sites. It appears in hospitals and other health care settings. (Use the abbreviation in your answer)

Computers can create what-if scenarios or ________ of what would happen to an infectious disease if something else happened (e.g., if air travel increased/decreased or the temperature rose or fell; if there was an adequate supply of antiviral drugs, if a vaccine existed or did not exist).

Statistics and mapping of a disease progression were used to contain an epidemic for the first time in the ________ century.

One concrete step to slow global warming (climate change) is cutting emissions of ________.

________ surveillance can be used, for example, in shelters where there are no medical personnel; people can look out for signs and symptoms (for instance diarrhea) and report them.

A program called ________ is used to model flu.

Public health is affected by social factors such as poverty and social ________.

________ informatics integrates "health-related data on all levels, such as molecule, cell, tissue, organ, people and the entire population."

WHO stands for ________.

A/An ________ is a global outbreak of disease to which every individual in the world is susceptible.

________ is a staph infection resistant to many antibiotics. It appeared in Europe in the 1960s, which coincides with the first widespread use of antibiotics. A recent study "confirm[s] that the evolution of resistant strains and their spread are primarily driven by antibiotic use." (Use the abbreviation in your answer)

________ is a microbiology information system developed at Brigham and Women's Hospital in Massachusetts. It is used to monitor antibacterial resistance.

In the early twentieth century, epidemic ________ struck in New York for the first time.

________ is a microbiology information system developed at Brigham and Women's Hospital in Massachusetts.

Bacterial resistance happens even without antibiotics, but the use and abuse of these drugs exacerbates the resistance and leads to the development of ________.

________ are organized "system[s] for the collection, storage, retrieval, analysis, and dissemination of information" on people with a disease, a predisposition toward a disease, and an exposure to anything thought to cause ill health.

Information technology can help infection control practitioners in the task of ________.