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1. AD is ++th leading cause of death in the 7th 18. in calculating an YPLL for a particular US people<65
United States city (as done in lecture) what population years old
group was in the numerator of the formula?
2. antibiotic resistance is a growing problem transformation
in the selection of therapeutics, especially 19. incidence new cases
viruses that have distributed resistant 20. in most developing countries what metric is GNP
genes through what mechanism?
most often used to measure health and (morbidity)
3. as a general rule, the health risks to the culture longevity?
citizens of a particular nation is most 21. in order for a vaccine of global importance costs ($1-2)
likely influenced by what factor?
(measles) to be accepted, what parameter effectiveness
4. By 2050, total estimated prevalence of AD 11-16 millions must be met in order for wide use and low toxicity
patient in the United States will be acceptance? (all of these)
5. cluster epidemic defined by 22. in sewage treatment plants at what stage is tertiary
place, time, or it considered the "chemical stage"?
circumstance 23. in the chronic cycle of disease the key economic
6. currently, what water corn disease is the cholera relationship for lowering rate of population freedom of
most threatening to the citizens of Haiti? growth involves: women
7. the current problem associated with the poverty 24. in the discussion of mad cow disease-this DNA/RNA
rise of TB, in part, stems from what virus is unique because it does not have
increasing problem? what key component of life?
8. DPT is the vaccine to eliminate, some polio 25. in the ebola video what animal-was the host monkey
common infectious disease risks in young to a similar virus-the showed up in Germany
children, which pathology is not covered? in the 1960s?
9. endemic expected cases 26. in the edge theory of disease which was leprosy
(based on year likely to be a disease left with natives in the
to year early 1800s?
patterns) 27. in the effort to lower poverty rates-in public birth rate
10. the epidemic level of disease have what expected health, what component of this effort can
definition? number over be eased by education and capital
time formation?
11. the epidemic of TB sowed with the multiple drug 28. in the emerging disease Hanta Virus, what mouse
discovery of what treatment technique? use are the ultimate sources of the
microorganisms?
12. from our discussion of the public health increase
cycle of disease; when infant mortality is 29. in the health and wealth of nations paper capital
high in a developing country what we discussed in lecture; one of the main formation
happens unexpectedly to the population? benefits to a larger and healthier older
population is:
13. from the video on ebola, there is evidence contact
that the filovirus can transfer between 30. in the immune response to a vaccine-what macrophage
people by what means? type of a cell initially processes the antigen
and delivers required protein information
14. given their conditions of Haiti- what re- cholera
to the T-cells?
emergine and currently an endemic TB
infection is likely to increase over the next 31. in the laboratory procedure for measuring EMB
few years? water contamination from coliform
bacteria; which type of bacterial media
15. How many vaccines do children get before 23
plate is most commonly used?
the age of 2?
32. in the recent epidemic of swine flu, which is the pig
16. How much does the government save by $ 10 billion
the setting for mutational events leading
vaccinating children?
the release of the H1N1?
17. in beef products-what is the most E. coli
expected bacterial contamination?
33. in the treatment protocol for some worms 49. sewage treatment plants and septic tanks primary
parasites what type of organism can have anaerobic metabolism in what stage of
change its antigens and make a the process?
vaccine worthless? 50. T/F: a developing country with a large base of false
34. Is autism a result of vaccination? No prove youth will always be able to create surplus
jobs to maintain a healthy GNP and a
35. the latest epidemic of ebola was africa
productive nation regardless of available
discovered in what country?
capital
36. the law requiring the use of fewer major head
51. What are 3 hypothesis of mechanism of AD Cholinergic
motorcycle helmets was a significant injuries
Amyloid
reason for lowering health care costs
Tau d
in ER settings; by lowering what
all of
event?
above
37. morbidity how many cases
52. what disease is considered to have its origins measles
will present
as a cattle disease known as rinderpest?
38. mortality how many will die
53. what early culture (100-400 BC) established greek
39. most of the old world diseases that humans on board public health for all of its citizens?
followed explorers to the new world
54. what emerging diseases has an arthropod dengue
came primarily from what source?
vector? fever
40. the most serious parasitic disease for malaria
55. what is now considered an emerging disease- E coli H157
humans in the tropics:
which can be found in both food and water O7
41. Name 3 alternative care for AD Vitamine E in the US?
Co Q10
56. what is the correct term to use when you are incidence
Coral calcium
measuring the number of new cases of HIV
Ginko biloba
within a city?
Huperzine A
Omega 3 fatty acid 57. what is the name of a vaccine made from passive
Phosphatidylserine preexisting antibodies-as in the treatment for immunity
tetanus?
42. outbreaks of contaminates foods such e coli O157H7
as meats, fresh veggies, are now 58. what is the primary vector for the black fleas
considered a problem of epidemic plague?
proportion within the USA; what is 59. what is the term used to describe the number incidence
the most often reported source of
of new cases of a particular disease moving
these outbreaks?
across international boarders?
43. pandemic crossing boarders 60. what is the term used to describe the type of endemic
44. presently, what type of organism viruses outbreak within a given number of people cluster
seems to produce the most severe with a particular disease, at a given location, epidemic
form of sexually transmitted disease? at any given time?
45. prevalence total cases 61. what microorganism is responsible for most salmonellae
of the food risks associated with poultry?
46. the productivity of a country, its GNP, education
can be an indirect measure of what (health) 62. what organism is used to measure the safety e. coli
feature of its general population? (potable water) of drinking water?
47. refugees, worldwide, can sometimes migrant workers 63. what preservation method for meat, kills freezing
become mixed and not recognized homeless fewer bacterial cells but prevents them from
within what other group? prisoners growing?
(all of these) 64. what refugees from a war torn country are about six
48. select the current emerging disease lyme's forced to live "on the move" their death rates times
that is transmitted by a vector-borne is altered by the stress, what is the impact on normal
mechanism the death rate?>
65. what term is used when you know from endemic 83. within developing nations, what is most clean
experience-the expected number of disease important for controlling infectious diseases? drinking
from one year to another water
66. what time period ushered in the beginning of 1800 84. within the paper on health and wealth of creating
the major decreases associated with nations-what is a primary benefit of creating jobs
crowding and poverty within european and wealth within the population?
US cities?
67. what type of vaccine has the ability to "revert polio
to wild type"? (live but
attenuated)
68. what type of vaccine is made from isolating toxoid
the protein (toxin from tetanus for example)
and making in inactive with formalin?
69. what type of viral diseases is considered the DNAds
less likely to shift or drift in their genetic
code?
70. What was component present on vaccines Thimerosal
that it's already removed?
71. what would be a vaccine that is homologous smallpox
to another organism?
72. when a vaccine is given to a population what 70%
is the desires level of participants to establish
"herd immunity"?
73. when considering the cost burden of the 41,000
urban homeless-what was the estimate per
homeless in NYC?
74. when discussing the yearly influenza virus, N
which visits the US, what antigen making up
the virus is also an enzyme?
75. when people die in a refugee camp because water
of poor conditions-what is the most likely
source of the risk-leading to high death
rates?
76. where in the sewage treatment plant is the secondary
BOD level at its greatest value?
77. which disease has almost been eradicated measles
from the USA mainly by the use of vaccines?
78. which of the following is generally the flu of
considered to have been the single most 1917
devastating epidemic recorded?
79. Which stage AD patient start losing Moderate
independency? dementia
80. while the local city and state laws are the constitution
main legal leverage for enacting public
health rules; federal laws are established at
what level?
81. Who discovered vaccination? Edward
Jenner
82. who is created with writing the first code of hebrews
hygiene in the year 1500 BC?