Exam 3: Information Technology in Public Health

________ models are the programs that create the simulations.

________ supports public health practice and research with information technology.

________ refers to "the study of the distribution and determinants of health-related states or events in specified populations, and the application of this study to the control of health problems."

Hurricane ________ flooded New Orleans both because it was a "monster hurricane" and because the levees failed.

The ________ (part of the Public Health Information Network) will promote "integrated surveillance systems that can transfer . . . public health, laboratory and clinical data . . . over the Internet." This would be a national electronic surveillance system.

Some of the effects of global warming (climate change) are ________.

________ is already having a devastating effect on the earth and is affecting agricultural production in some places.

________ attacks the immune system, leading to susceptibility to opportunistic infection.

________ uses "health-related data that precede diagnosis and signal a sufficient probability of a case or an outbreak."

On March 11, 2011, a 9.0 magnitude earthquake hit Japan, followed by a ________ with 30-foot waves.