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