D402 Key Terms (2025) Update
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an accepted scientific theory stating
microorganisms, also called
germ theory of
pathogens or germs, can cause
disease:
disease by invading humans, animals,
or living hosts
a medication used to treat infections
that was discovered in 1928 by
Alexander Fleming and was one of
penicillin:
the first medications against bacterial
infections that had previously killed
many people
, an interdisciplinary approach that
evidence-based bases the treatment of a health
medicine: concern on the best available current
research
a report written by Lemuel Shattuck in
1850 identifying public health needs
for Massachusetts; the report
Shattuck Report: identified the importance of data such
as birth and death statistics to verify
the cause and effect of poor hygiene
on preventable diseases
heating liquids at high temperatures
within a short period to kill harmful
pasteurization: microbes (bacteria) in milk, thus
keeping foods safe and not affecting
the nutritional quality
a prepared substance administered
by injection, orally, or sprayed into the
vaccine:
nose to stimulate the body's immune
response against a disease
the health status of a defined
community
geographic area with similar
health:
characteristics
, the science of improving health and
public health: preventing and researching disease
states
the practice of conducting
community health
assessments of populations at the
assessment:
local or state level
a measure of the number of deaths in
mortality:
a population
the symptom or the amount of
morbidity:
disease within a population
conditions that affect the health of a
community, such as safe housing,
health
transportation, racism, discrimination,
determinants:
job opportunities, language, and
literacy skills
an action taken to improve (in the
case of health) a health problem to
intervention:
mitigate the harm resulting from the
problem
factors that can affect health and
socio-ecological explores the relationship among
model of health: health, the individual, the group, and
the community
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Terms in this set (92)
an accepted scientific theory stating
microorganisms, also called
germ theory of
pathogens or germs, can cause
disease:
disease by invading humans, animals,
or living hosts
a medication used to treat infections
that was discovered in 1928 by
Alexander Fleming and was one of
penicillin:
the first medications against bacterial
infections that had previously killed
many people
, an interdisciplinary approach that
evidence-based bases the treatment of a health
medicine: concern on the best available current
research
a report written by Lemuel Shattuck in
1850 identifying public health needs
for Massachusetts; the report
Shattuck Report: identified the importance of data such
as birth and death statistics to verify
the cause and effect of poor hygiene
on preventable diseases
heating liquids at high temperatures
within a short period to kill harmful
pasteurization: microbes (bacteria) in milk, thus
keeping foods safe and not affecting
the nutritional quality
a prepared substance administered
by injection, orally, or sprayed into the
vaccine:
nose to stimulate the body's immune
response against a disease
the health status of a defined
community
geographic area with similar
health:
characteristics
, the science of improving health and
public health: preventing and researching disease
states
the practice of conducting
community health
assessments of populations at the
assessment:
local or state level
a measure of the number of deaths in
mortality:
a population
the symptom or the amount of
morbidity:
disease within a population
conditions that affect the health of a
community, such as safe housing,
health
transportation, racism, discrimination,
determinants:
job opportunities, language, and
literacy skills
an action taken to improve (in the
case of health) a health problem to
intervention:
mitigate the harm resulting from the
problem
factors that can affect health and
socio-ecological explores the relationship among
model of health: health, the individual, the group, and
the community
