Biostatistics Random St. Patrick's Day Questions Community and Behavioral Health Traditions and Facts Health Management and Policy
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What is biostatistics?
The development and application of statistics to research in health-related fields.
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What is Chicago and San Antonio?
Name 1 of 2 cities that dye the river green on March 17.
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What is health disparities?
According to Healthy People 2020, this term is defined as “the differences that occur by gender, race or ethnicity, education, or income, disability, geographic location, or sexual orientation.”
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What is they get pinched?
This would happen in Ireland when a person did not wear green on St. Patrick's Day
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What is the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act?
This is the official name of the piece of legislation commonly referred to as “Obamacare.”
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What is an experiment?
A procedure designed by biostatisticians which efficiently seeks to answer questions, often posed by researchers in the public health field.
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What is big pots of gold?
This can be found at the end of a rainbow
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What is WIC (Women, Infant, Children)?
A public health program that supports low-income women and children with services such as food subsidies, well-child visits, and dental screenings in their community.
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What is a Harp?
The official emblem of Ireland
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What is 65?
At this age, U.S. citizens are eligible for the health insurance program, Medicare.
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What is a prediction?
A statistically-informed guess for future trends in which a researcher is interested.
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What is Green, White, and Orange?
These three colors make the Irish flag
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What is the “Avoid The Stork” campaign?
This social media campaign used the humor of a silly bird to help prevent unintended pregnancies in Iowa?
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What is Ireland Forever?
"Erin go Brah" means this in Irish
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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 are clinical trials?
A process in which biostatisticians seek to determine the efficacy of a drug through several stages of testing.
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What is Boston?
This city hosted the first St. Patrick's Day parade
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What is 8 million?
At the 50th anniversary of the Surgeon General’s Warning on the Effects of Smoking, this many deaths were avoided due to public health’s efforts?
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What is a Claddagh?
This style of ring has 2 hands holding a heart
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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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What is a sample size?
The number of observations in a study, which is commonly a calculation that biostatisticians are asked to find by their collaborators.
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What is England?
St. Patrick was born in this country
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What is 4.5 hours?
A typical kid age 6-11 spends this much time on average in front of a screen each day (TV, computer, phone, tablet)?
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What is Protestant?
What does the color orange represent in the Ireland flag?
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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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