Define Public Health

How would you get information about events, behaviors, or environmental conditions that affect public health?

What does a public health investigation start with?

Why do you think mosquito breeding could be relevant to the investigation?

Do you know of any diseases spread by mosquitoes?

What environmental factors might affect mosquito populations?

What did investigators know-and not know-about the diseases outbreak to this point? (What data did they have to work with?)

What is epidemiology?

Relate what you saw in Mystery Illness in NYC to the process epidemiologists use.

Whom did New York City public health workers interview when they began their investigation? What questions did they ask?

What did they suspect might be responsible for transmitting diseases to the human population? How did they come up with this idea?

What did the investigators do next to test their hypothesis?

Name some ways in which infectious diseases are transmitted from one organism to another.

How does understanding the source of transmission of a disease help stop its spread?

What evidence led investigators to conclude a mosquito was responsible for transmitting the disease?

Discuss how the CDC made its initial diagnosis, why everyone wasn’t convinced at first, and what convinced the CDC to reconsider its diagnosis?

Use the PPT to answer the chart.

Use the PPT to answer the chart.

Use Services:

Restaurants and pre-made food:

Beauty parlors/Barbershops have increased services:

Health Clubs and gyms:

Globalization:

More Urban Dwellers: