Exam 5: Information Technology in Public Health

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

Between 2011 and 2015,an international program to combat AIDS aims to advance global progress in achieving country set targets for universal access to HIV prevention,treatment,care and support and to halt and reverse the spread of HIV.".It is called ________________.

WHO stands for ______________________________.

_________________ 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.

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

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

__________________ refers to "the study of diseases in populations by collecting and analyzing statistical data."

_______________ supports public health practice and research with information technology.

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

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