Clean Water: A Limited Resource
KEY TERMS Clean Water Act Nonpoint-source pollution Point-source pollution Safe Drinking Water Act The importance of safe drinking water to public health has been clear since John Snow identified polluted…
Public Health Enemy Number Two and Growing: Poor Diet and Physical Inactivity
KEY TERMS Body-mass index (BMI) National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey (NHANES) Obesity Overweight Primary care U.S. Department of Health and Human Services Waist-to-hip ratio (WHR) Throughout evolutionary history, humans…
Statistics: Making Sense of Uncertainty
KEY TERMS Adjusted rate Biopsy Birth rate Congenital Cost–benefit analysis Cost-effectiveness analysis Crude rate False-negative False-positive Fertility rate Gene Mammogram p value Rates Risk assessment Screening Sensitive Significance Specific Statistics…
Epidemiologic Principles and Methods
KEY TERMS Association Case-control studies Cohort study Double-blind Experimental group Epidemic curve Incidence Intervention study Mortality rate Placebo Prevalence Probability Randomized Relative risk This chapter examines epidemiology more closely, defining…
Health Services Research: Finding What Works
KEY TERMS Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ) Health services research National Committee for Quality Assurance (NCQA) Outcomes research Pap test In the late 1960s and early 1970s, the…
Epidemiology: The Basic Science of Public Health
KEY TERMS Birth defect Chronic disease Control group Endemic level Epidemic Immune system Incubation period Notifable disease/Reportable disease Vital statistics Charles-Edward Amory Winslow, the great public health leader of the…
Population: The Ultimate Environmental Health Issue
KEY TERMS Carrying capacity Global warming Human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) Urbanization Population biology is a science in itself. Studies of animal, plant, and microorganism…
