Assessment
Process of determining the health needs of a community.
Assurance
Process of making sure that correct actions are taken to protect community
health.
Block grants
Money granted by the national government to a state government with few restrictions
on its spending.
Case
Term used in health statistics to refer to each person who has a disease.
Center for Disease Control (CDC)
Works with state health departments and other community organizations to monitor disease, help prevent outbreaks, maintain national health statistics, and operate disease prevention and health promotion programs.
Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS)
Works with state health departments and other community organizations to monitor disease, help prevent outbreaks, maintain national health statistics, and operate disease prevention and health promotion programs.
Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS)
Provides health care insurance through third-party carriers for about one in every four Americans.
Communicable disease
Disease that spreads from person to person; another term for infectious disease.
Curative medical care
Medical care that helps to cure an already ill or infected person.
Drug resistant
Describes when a disease or bacteria is not affected or stopped by the use of common antibiotics and other drugs.
Epidemic
Term used to describe a disease that is widespread in a population.
Epidemiology
The study of the nature, cause, control, and determinants of the frequency of disease, disability, and death in human populations; also the study of the history of a disease and its distribution throughout a society.
Food and Drug Administration (FDA)
Assures the safety and efficacy of food, cosmetics, and medications.
Foundation
Type of non-profit organization that raises money and then distributes it to other organizations in support of their programs.
Health
State of complete physical, mental, and social well-being and not merely the absence of disease or infirmity.
Health Resources and Services Administration (HRSA)
Provides access to health care services for low-income and uninsured people or for people who live in areas where health care is not easily available.
Infectious disease
A disease that can spread from person to person (versus a genetic disease or a disease that is not contagious).
Monitoring
The regular review of disease data to determine changes in disease levels.
Policy development
Process of making a collective decision about what needs to be done to protect the community's health.
Prevention efforts
Health programs and behaviors that prevent illness from occurring.
Public health
Involves the well-being of all of us as we live together in neighborhoods, communities, states, and countries.
Quarantine
Forced isolation of a person to prevent a disease from spreading.
SARS
Severe acute respiratory syndrome associated with coronavirus.
Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration (SAMSHA)
Works to improve the availability and quality of substance abuse prevention, addiction treatment, and mental health services.
Surveillance
The continuous search for and documentation of disease in public health.