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Public Health
The science of preventing disease and promoting health at the population level — epidemiology applied to policy, global health, health systems, and the social determinants that shape outcomes.
Public Health Fundamentals: Pillars and Frameworks
Core public health frameworks — determinants of health, primary, secondary and tertiary prevention, and the social-ecological model.
Global Health: Diseases, Equity, and Determinants
The global burden of disease, health inequities, the role of WHO and major funders, and the persistent challenges of low-resource settings.
Biostatistics for Public Health: Studies, Risk, and Causation
Risk ratios, odds ratios, confidence intervals, p-values, confounding, and the toolbox for inferring causation from population data.
Health Systems and Policy Around the World
Comparative health systems, financing mechanisms, universal health coverage, and the trade-offs that shape policy choices.
Epidemiology in Action: From Outbreak to Insight
Study designs, descriptive vs analytical epidemiology, outbreak investigation, and the core measures of disease frequency and association.
Articles
Read About Public Health
Long-form articles on the same ground as these quizzes.
Dictionary
Key Public Health Terms
Plain definitions, with how to say each word and where it comes from.
- Communicable disease
A communicable disease is an infection that can pass from one person or animal to another, directly or through air, water, food, objects or vectors.
- Disability-adjusted life year
A disability-adjusted life year (DALY) equals one year of healthy life lost, counting both early death and time spent living with illness or disability.
- Health equity
Health equity means every person has a fair chance to be as healthy as possible, with no avoidable, unjust differences in health between social groups.
- Life expectancy
Life expectancy is the average number of further years people of a given age would live if current death rates at each age stayed the same.
- Morbidity
Morbidity is the state of having a disease, injury or disability, and also the amount of illness in a population, measured by incidence and prevalence.
- Noncommunicable disease
A noncommunicable disease is a long-lasting illness, such as heart disease, cancer or diabetes, that does not pass from one person to another.
Diagrams
See Public Health Drawn
Interactive diagrams to step through before a quiz, every part linked to its definition.
- Chain of Infection diagram
The six links of the chain of infection, from infectious agent to susceptible host, and how hand hygiene, PPE, cleaning and vaccination break each one.
Research
Calculators for Public Health
Free, with the formula and a worked example for each.
- Sample Size and Power Calculator
How many participants a survey or a two-group study needs, or the power of the sample you have, with a paragraph for your methods.
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Related Disciplines
Subjects close to Public Health, each with its own set of quizzes.
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