History | Food & Environment | Epidemiology | Health Management & Policy | Miscellaneous Marion |
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What are chopsticks?
This Chinese invention developed about 5,000 years ago was great for eating dumplings and played an early role in improved sanitation and hygiene.
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What is mercury?
This heavy metal (not Metallica) is dangerous for fetal development and found in fish.
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What is an epidemiologist?
This important public health person is interested in the causes of diseases and how to control them, the frequency and geographic distribution of diseases, and the causal relationships between diseases.
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What is the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act?
This official name of this piece of legislation commonly referred to as "Obamacare".
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Who is Francis Marion?
Marion is named after this American Revolutionary War general, also known as the Swamp Fox and inspired the Mel Gibson movie The Patriot.
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What are antibiotics?
This class of drugs developed from Alexander Fleming's discovery of penicillin in 1928 are used preventatively against bacterial diseases.
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What is pasteurization?
This process is known as the sterilization of milk.
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What is a pandemic?
The outbreak of a disease across multiple countries.
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What is 65 years old?
At this age, U.S. citizens are eligible for the health insurance program, Medicare.
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Who is Jim Thorpe?
This legendary footballer helped create an all-Native American NFL team called the Oorang Indians in Larue during the early 1920's.
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What is the Bubonic Plague?
A trade deal gone wrong. This 14th century pandemic spread through rodents and fleas from trading ships killed more than 100 million people.
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What is scurvy?
This "sailor sickness" plagued ship crews for thousands of years. To treat it, eat a lemon or an orange.
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What is sample size?
The number of observations in a study, AKA n.
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What is CMS?
This acronym is used to represent the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services.
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What is Jacob's Well?
This landmark located just 1600 feet from MPH was where Marion was first founded during the War of 1812. General William H. Harrison and his troops camped here and drank from the well.
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Who is Mary Mallon / Typhoid Mary?
She was "Patient Zero" of the 1906 New York typhoid epidemic. Doctors called her the most dangerous woman in America.
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What are birth defects?
Folic acid, a water-soluble B Vitamin, prevents these in developing fetuses.
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What is biostatistics?
This sector of statistics deals with the development and application of statistics in health-related fields.
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What is Medicaid?
As part of health reform legislation, this insurance program has been expanded in many states to include individuals who earn up to 138 percent of the Federal Poverty Level, annually.
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Who is Stanley Jackson?
This former 1990's Ohio State Buckeye quarterback became part-owner of the now defunct Marion Mayhem in 2007 and still holds two Continental Indoor Football League records.
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What is 1970?
The Public Health Cigarette Smoking Act banned smoking in many indoor areas and designated specific smoking areas in this year.
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What is 165 degrees Fahrenheit?
This minimal internal temperature (Fahrenheit) stated by the Ohio Administrative Code is used to cook poultry to ensure that foodborne bacteria have been destroyed.
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Who is John Snow?
"The Father of Modern Epidemiology"
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What are Accountable Care Organizations?
This model of healthcare delivery and financing is also called an “ACO.”
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What is 1921?
Marion's own President Warren G. Harding was sworn into the presidency this year.
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