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Match the term with the appropriate definition or description: -Efforts made by communities to cope with health problems that arise when people live in groups

A) endemic
B) epidemic
C) epidemiology
D) pandemic
E) primary prevention
F) public health
G) public health problems
H) secondary prevention
I) tertiary prevention

J) F) and H)
K) B) and I)

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Performance in public health equals those who received care divided by ______.

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President Eisenhower created the Department of Health, __and Welfare (HEW) as a cabinet-level position.

What act did President John Adams sign into law providing for the care and relief of sick and disabled seamen?

In 1970, the National Health Service Corps was created to help offset the __of providers by financially rewarding prospective clinicians for their willingness to practice in needy areas.

__is the existing number of cases of a disease during a stated time.

The ____Clause of the U.S. Constitution is used as rationale for the federal government to regulate entities and processes that cross state boundaries such as air, water, and sanitation.

Which of the following tasks has traditionally been the purview of public health officials?

Which of the following exposed the unsanitary conditions in New York City and led to the passage of a public health law that created a city board of health?

NIH is an acronym for which public health agency?