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

The public health approach to ______________________ of cancer is to prevent human exposure to the agents that cause the mutation.

whats the appropriate year of the following events? -Fluoride was added to the water supply in Newburgh

The high per capita production of _____________________ is part of the affluent lifestyle, one that poorer countries strive to emulate and may begin to achieve if they can control the growth of their populations.

whats the appropriate yearof the following events? -President Obama issued a scientific integrity directive which was praised by the Union of Concerned Scientists

Electroconvulsive shock therapy is sometimes used as a treatment for which of the following?

whats the appropriate year of the following events? -21,269 cases of paralytic polio were reported in the United States

whats the appropriate description of the following? -Viral disease that could in theory be eradicated but is not is an example of what happens when public health relaxes its vigilance.

whats the appropriate description of the following terms? -Performed on more than half of all children in the 1930s through the 1950s in the belief that it prevented rheumatic fever and other complications of strep throat

whats the appropriate description of the following terms? -Used as a treatment for women with advanced breast cancer in the 1990s

The _______________________ is the main assessment and epidemiologic agency for the nation.

In the developing countries of Asia and Africa, where HIV infection is spreading rapidly, heterosexual relations are the most common means of transmission.

The organ allocation process is a life-or-death matter because on average how many people die every day while waiting for an organ?

whats the appropriate description of the pollutant? -Extremely harmful to the respiratory system at ground level, is a natural component of the upper atmosphere that provides a layer of protection against ultraviolet radiation

In_______________________, the patient is asked to recount his or her traumatic experience and a therapist helps him or her redirect inaccurate or destructive thoughts about the experience.

whats the appropriate description of the following? -There are many invisible cases in which children may be infected and able to spread the virus by the fecal-oral route but not show symptoms.

Two human retroviruses, causing two types of what disorder, were known before HIV was discovered?

whats the appropriate year of the event? -The United States joined 90 other nations in signing the Stockholm Convention on Persistent Organic Pollutants, agreeing to reduce and/or eliminate the production use, and release of 12 of the POPs of greatest concern.

whats the appropriate description of the terms? -Amniocentesis

whats the appropriate description of the terms? -Autosomal dominant disorder

whats the appropriate symptoms of the virus? -Encephalitis/inflammation of the brain