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

In recent decades, some landfills have collected gases and used them directly as an alternative fuel or burned them to produce renewable energy in the form of electricity.

John Wennberg and the Dartmouth research group have found that geographical variations in ______________________ care demonstrate that a significant amount of the spending is wasted.

What Hall of Fame baseball player received a liver transplant in 1995 after only 1 day on the UNOS list?

whats the appropriate description of the following terms? -Risk of rapidly drops back to that of non-smokers soon after the smoker quits

While claims have been made that _____________________ may help wean smokers from conventional cigarettes, there is little evidence that this is true.

Which of the following is a major public health problem because, if left untreated, causes damage to the blood vessels throughout the body especially the eyes and kidneys?

whats the appropriate description of the organization? -Regulates bottled water and requires it to meet drinking water standards set by the EPA

Measurement of _____________________, the concentration of viruses in the blood, is a valuable tool for evaluating the effectiveness of therapeutic drugs.

whats the appropriate description of the following terms? -Demonstrated that a company may purposely suppress negative information about a drug during the approval process

whats the appropriate description of the following terms? -Used to monitor long-term trends of cancer incidence and mortality

whats the appropriate description of the following? -A gauge of society's attention to children's health and is often used as an indicator of the health status of a population as a whole

An ________________________ could have prevented the politically charged battle in early 2005 over removing a feeding tube from Terri Schiavo a young Florida woman who had been in a persistent vegetative state for 15 years.

A variation of the __________________________ arrangement allows patients to go to non-participating but requires them to pay a higher percentage of those costs out of their own pockets.

whats the appropriate description of the organization? -Published a study in 1999 in which many of the 103 brands of bottled water tested contained chemical or biological contaminants

whats the appropriate description of the following? -Although there is an effective vaccine, routine immunization of everyone is not recommended.

Down syndrome, caused by an extra copy of which chromosome, is the best known chromosomal abnormality largely because its effects are less lethal than those of other chromosomal defects and most affected infants survive?

whats the appropriate yearof the following events? -Dan E. Beauchamp publishes influential paper "Public Health as a Social Justice" in which he calls on public health to challenge the ideology that prevails in the United States, an ideology that he calls "market justice."

whats the appropriate description of the following terms? -Form the basis of effective public health practice as well as the planning and evaluation efforts that are increasingly being used in public health programming

whats the appropriate symptoms of the virus? -Acute respiratory distress/lungs filled with fluid

When Oregon realized its Medicaid budget was not large enough to provide comprehensive coverage for all of the its poor citizens, it decided not to pay for which of the following because the funds could provide for prenatal care and delivery for 1500 pregnant women?