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RA 9288 is also known as:

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Newborn screening law

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First international conference on health promotion in 1986 was held in

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Ottawa

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Comprises legal or fiscal controls, other regulation policies and voluntary codes of practice aimed at the enhancement of positive health and prevention of ill health

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Health protection

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Form of a logic model where assessment, intervention planning and evaluation are put into one framework

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Precede proceed model

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Phases of communicable disease

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Pre pathogenic Pathogenic

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Elements of a communicable disease

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Agent

Host

Environment

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Ability of the agent to invade and multiply

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Infectivity

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Capacity of an agent to induce disease which is clinically apparent in an infected host

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Pathogenicity

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Ability of an agent to produce serious illness

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Virulence

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Ability of an agent to stimulate the host to produce defense mechanisms

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Immunogenicity

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Ability to combine specifically with the products or effectors of the immune response

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Antigenicity

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Type of carrier Varicella, measles and hepatitis virus

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Incubatory carrier

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Type of carrier Diphtheria Hepa B

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Convalescent carrier

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Type of carrier Salmonella Hepa B

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Chronic

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Can be used to measure the rate of an epidemic Period between the receipt of infection by the host and the maximal communicability of that host

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Generation Time

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Types of host Parasite reaches maturity and if possible reproduces sexually

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Definitive

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Types of host Can harbor a pathogen indefinitely without ill effects

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Reservoir

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Types of host Harbors the parasite only for a short transition period during which some of the developmental stage is completed

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Intermediate

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Types of host Host similar to intermediate but is not needed for developmental cycle to progress

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Paratenic

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Types of host Level of pathogen can become high enough that a vector such as a mosquito that feeds on it will probably become infectious

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Amplifying

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Resistance of a group to invasion and spread of an infectious agent based on the immunity of a high proportion of individuals

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Herd immunity

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Refers to a time during which an infectious agent can be transmitted from a person to another

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Period of communicability

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Separates and restricts movement of people who were exposed to a contagious disease to see if they become sick

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Quarantine

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Exposure of a susceptible population to common source of pathogen

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Common source outbreak

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Exposure of susceptible population at the same time to common source of pathogen Single exposure

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Point epidemic

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Type of epidemic: The epidemic extends over a number of cases in each successive time period

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Prolonged-progressive

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Branch of medicine concerned with the evaluation of the potential health risk of various toxic substances and physical factors in working environments

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Occupational health

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Refers to time weighted average concentration for a regular 8 hour workday shift for a total of 40 hour workweek at which nearly all workers may be exposed daily without adverse effects

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Threshold limit value

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Continuous exposure to sound of how many decibels may lead to permanent hearing loss?

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>90 dB

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Failure of thermoregulatory center and suppression of sweating Disorientation, delirium, coma

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Heat stroke

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Results from deficiency of water or salt leading to circulatort insufficiency

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Heat exhaustion

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Also called human factors engineering, examines the ways to adapt the working environment to ensure a safe and productive workplace

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Ergonomics

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Most important greenhouse gas

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Water vapor

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Largest source of water

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Ground water

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Washing of clothes or bathing from the source of drinking water

No source of water should be constructed from any source of pollution

No radioactive materials shall be stored

What is the distance?

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25 meters

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Boiling of water should be done for how many minutes for it to be safe for drinking?

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15 mins

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Tincture of iodine can be used to disinfect water. How much should be used?

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2 drops per 1 liter

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Most important single treatment of water supply

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Chlorination

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Only method of disposing radioactive waste

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Use of landfills