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Public Health Trivia Night
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1
What is meant when a disease is said to be endemic?
It has reached epidemic levels
There is no vaccine available
It has an extremely high mortality rate
It is regularly found in a group of people or certain region
2
What is the global average life expectancy at birth for females (WHO, 2016)
58 years
72 years
65 years
60 years
3
Practice Question: Is public health the best?
No
Yes
Maybe
Sort of
4
Which of the following measures can reverse an opioid overdose?
Dialysis
Ipecac administration
Naloxone administration
Difibrillation
5
What is the only human disease to be completely eradicated by vaccines? (certified eradication by the WHO)
Whooping Cough
Measles
Polio
Small Pox
6
What US state has the lowest incidence (per capita) of cancer?
Iowa
Utah
South Dakota
Minnesota
7
Public health measure introduced by Ignaz Semmelweis to stop the spread of childbed fever.
Wearing gloves
Hand Washing
Sanitizing sheets from hospital beds
MEOW
8
Who discovered penicillin?
John Snow
Marie Curie
Franis Collins
Alexander Fleming
9
John Snow disproved the miasma theory and discovered that this disease is water-borne.
Giardia
Diphtheria
Hepatitis C
Cholera
10
What is the only disease to be completely eradicated by vaccines?
Whooping Cough
Small Pox
Polio
Measles
11
Pre-contemplation is a stage of which model of health behavior change?
Social Ecological Model
Transtheoretical Model
Health Belief Model
Harm Reduction Model
12
Who founded the American Red Cross?
Helen Clark
Clara Barton
Mirta Roses Periago
Vikram Patel
13
Contact with this can NOT spread HIV from an infected person.
Breastmilk
Sweat
Blood
Semen
14
Which of these diseases has the highest basic reproduction number?(highest rate of transmission)
HIV/AIDS
Ebola
Measles
Influenza
15
What year were Medicare and Medicaid signed into law?
1965
1938
1954
1972
16
Which finger has the fastest growing nail?
Pointer
Middle
Ring
Pinky
17
What was the first group of people to practice food sanitation?
Ancient Hebrews
Ancient Greeks
Ancient Egyptians
Ancient Romans
18
Zika virus can cause what condition in the offspring of affected mothers?
Microcephaly
Phenylketonuria
Cleft Palate
Down Syndrome
19
Which of the following public health crises is NOT an effect of climate change?
Increase in vector-borne disease (ex mosquitoes etc?)
Increases in Autism diagnosis
Migration from famine
Death toll from extreme weather events
20
What is an incubation period?
Time between exposure and onset of symptom
Average recovery time
Time between onset of symptoms and death
Length of time a person is contagious
21
The spread of this infectious disease was attributed to an Irish-American cook.
Whooping coughy
Cholera
Typhoid
Measles
22
This measurement is the proportion of infected individuals in a population at any given time?
Suceptibility
Mortality
Incidence
Prevalence
