Exam 32: Exploring Public Health: Definitions, Leaders, and Controversies

whats appropriate screening characteristic of the disease? -Illinois and Louisiana mandated premarital screening in 1987

The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention was required to remove the "Programs that Work" information from their website, which was aimed at the prevention of which of the following?

In some states, the fixed fees that the program pays to providers are so low that doctors are unwilling to participate in the program, making it difficult for families that have coverage to find someone to treat them other than poor-quality "Medicaid mills."

___________________ is the warning system that alerts the community that something is wrong, that a gap has opened in the protective bulwark against preventable disease, or that a new disease has appeared on the horizon.

whats the ethnic group in which they are predominate of the autosomal recessive disorder? -Sickle-cell Disease

Many clinical trials over the years have found that what percentage of patients respond to a placebo as if it were the intervention?

Due to the successes in health services research, it is now widely used to help people make decisions about health care based on quality.

The information researchers obtain concerning exposure in the case-control trial may not be reliable.

whats the appropriate yearof the following events? -Union of Concerned Scientists released a report call "Scientific Integrity in Policymaking" which was signed by more than 60 leading scientists including 20 Nobel Prize winners.

whats the appropriate year of the following events? -Aspirin aspect of the Physician's Health Study was halted

Koch's second postulate requires that a possible disease-causing microbe be cultured in the lab.

whats the appropriate occupation of the exposure? -Caused nerve damage in dry cleaners

There is a more significant role for public health in the prevention of disorders that are caused by dominant genes.

whats the appropriate yearof the following events? -New York Times reported that the National Cancer Institute's Web site contained information suggesting that having an abortion increased a woman's risk of breast cancer

whats the appropriate belief promoted by the AIDS prevention program targeted at gay men in San Francisco in the mid-1980s of the question? -"My peers support new behaviors."

The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, who state the effects of global warming are already being felt, won the Nobel Peace Prize in 2007 along with which former Vice President?

whats the appropriate description of the minority group? -Are a heterogenous group and their health status varies among different subgroups

Recent progress in what area is providing new insights into people's inherent susceptibility to various diseases, raising new hopes of cures as well as concerns about discrimination?

The first pandemic since 1968, which struck in 2009, turned out to be H1N1, a milder strain of which of the following?

Radon in the home must be regarded as a serious cancer threat causing an estimated 21,000 deaths a year from what type of cancer?