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Stuff Every Public Health Scout Should Know

Practice facts for the Public Health merit badge. Not an official Scouting America credential.

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  1. What does public health mainly try to do for communities?
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    Prevent disease and promote health. Public health works to prevent disease, prolong life, and promote health across whole communities.

  2. Public health begins at which level, according to the overview?
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    The individual person. Public health starts with one person, who can then influence family and community health.

  3. Which is a common public health initiative mentioned?
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    Promoting hand-washing. Hand-washing promotion is a listed public health initiative that helps stop contagious disease spread.

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  1. What does public health mainly try to do for communities?
  2. Public health begins at which level, according to the overview?
  3. Which is a common public health initiative mentioned?
  4. How is E. coli often contracted?
  5. How is tetanus usually contracted?
  6. How is Lyme disease spread to people?
  7. How does the COVID-19 virus spread between people?
  8. What does immunization mean?
  9. Why is safe drinking water important for public health?
  10. What is a vector in public health?
  11. Why is controlling insects and rodents important?
  12. Which vectors can individuals often control around the home?
  13. Which vector problem needs long-term collective action?
  14. What health danger comes from noise pollution?
  15. What health danger comes from tobacco use?
  16. What health danger comes from abusing prescription drugs?
  17. What does a food thermometer help you check?
  18. What conditions let microorganisms multiply in food?
  19. Why should dishes and utensils be washed and dried properly?
  20. What is one way to make water safe to drink at camp?
  21. What is another way to make water safe at camp?
  22. How should sewage and solid waste be handled in wilderness camping?
  23. What does a wastewater treatment facility do?
  24. Why does a food service facility watch food storage?
  25. What does a public health agency do during a disease outbreak?
  26. What kind of public assistance can a health agency give after a disaster?
  27. What does epidemiology study?
  28. What does public health surveillance act as during emergencies?
  29. What is the overall goal of a public health intervention?
  30. What does health include besides physical well-being?
  31. What does the WHO stand for in public health?
  32. What major disease did public health efforts eradicate?
  33. What is a key way to prevent West Nile virus?
  34. What causes botulism?
  35. How does influenza mainly spread?
  36. What is a main cause of emphysema?
  37. What is a sign of meningitis?
  38. Why is lead poisoning a danger to children?
  39. What is a social determinant of health?
  40. What does vaccination do for a community?
  41. What does the word 'morbidity' describe in public health?
  42. Why do health agencies compare leading causes of death with leading causes of illness?
  43. What does a public health career usually require?
  44. What does the WHO Constitution call its main objective?
  45. What does the WHO do about public health risks?
  46. What can public libraries do for public health?
  47. What does the term 'population health' focus on?
  48. What does the WHO say about breastfeeding's role in child health?
  49. What did John Snow identify as the source of a cholera outbreak?
  50. What did Ronald Ross identify as the carrier of malaria?
  51. What did Paul-Louis Simond prove about plague? 🔒
  52. What did Joseph Lister introduce to surgery? 🔒
  53. What did Louis Pasteur and Robert Koch help establish? 🔒
  54. What did the 1875 Public Health Act reforms include? 🔒
  55. What did the Infectious Disease Notification Act require? 🔒
  56. What does the WHO list as a core function of public health programs? 🔒
  57. What does the WHO say about health aid and child deaths? 🔒
  58. What do Sustainable Development Goals 1 through 6 address? 🔒
  59. What does the term 'preventive medicine' focus on? 🔒
  60. What does the term 'global health' focus on? 🔒
  61. What does the term 'international health' deal with? 🔒
  62. What does the term 'lifestyle medicine' use to prevent or reverse disease? 🔒
  63. What does the WHO say about antibiotic resistance? 🔒
  64. What does the WHO report about diabetes worldwide? 🔒
  65. What did the WHO say about type 2 diabetes reaching epidemic levels? 🔒
  66. What does the WHO say about overweight children globally? 🔒
  67. What does the WHO say about health workers in developing countries? 🔒
  68. What does the WHO say about maternal and child health in developing countries? 🔒
  69. What does the WHO say about food safety surveillance? 🔒
  70. What does the WHO say about needle-exchange programs? 🔒
  71. What does the WHO say about promoting ventilation? 🔒
  72. What does the WHO say about smoking cessation? 🔒
  73. What does the WHO say about obesity education? 🔒
  74. What does the WHO say about increasing healthcare accessibility? 🔒
  75. What does the WHO say about distributing condoms? 🔒
  76. What does the WHO say about suicide prevention? 🔒