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The second epidemiological revolution refers to progress that occurred after 1950 toward identifying risk factors associated with chronic diseases and injuries.

Which of the following reports rearticulated the mission, substance, and core functions of public health and challenged the public health community to think more strategically, plan more collectively, and perform more effectively?

In recent decades, the number of workers in the U.S. health sector has steadily increased while the proportion of total national health expenditures on public health activity has declined.

Which of the following is one of MAPP’s four assessments?

As of the year 2000, tobacco use in the greatest actual cause of death. What is the second leading actual cause of death in the United States?

When discussing the results of an experiment researchers use the term significance. What does that mean exactly?  Be sure to explain p values, confidence interval, and any other relevant term that is often used to describe the power of one’s results.

The term blind experiment means that you’ve gone out of your way to make sure the subjects don’t know which group they’re in, the experimental or control group. What is a double-blind experiment?  In social research these precautions help protect your study from the Hawthorne Effect. What is the Hawthorne Effect?

In 2005, more than 50% of state Medicaid programs were administered by the federal government.

The type of muscle fiber that is most resistant to fatigue and aids in stamina is the _______fiber.

Which of these best describes the bond angles in H3O+?