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Public Health
Public Health
Public Health merit badge requirements from ? to 1996:
- Visit your city, county, or state public health agency.
Prepare an outline of its various services and:
- Explain them briefly to your counselor.
- Explain how these affect you.
- Find out the four leading causes of death
(mortality) in the United States for any one of the
past 5 years. Compare these with the four leading
causes of hospital admissions (morbidity) in the
United States. Find out how the public health agency
you visited is involved in trying to reduce both the
mortality and morbidity of these leading causes of
illness and disability.
- Tell about three professions of the people providing
these services.
- Explain how the following diseases are contracted:
tetanus, influenza, sexually transmitted diseases,
hepatitis, trichinosis, emphysema, encephalitis,
salmonellosis, Rocky Mountain spotted fever, mushroom
poisoning, lead poisoning.
- Do the following:
- Explain the meaning of immunization.
- Name five diseases against which a baby should be
immunized.
- Name two diseases against which you should be
immunized.
- Explain:
- How foods can become contaminated.
- What conditions allow microorganisms to increase in
number in food.
- How microorganisms in food can be killed.
- How dishes and utensils should be washed in camp and
at home.
- Do the following:
- Show two ways of making water safe to drink under
camping conditions.
- Describe the steps used in making public drinking
water safe.
- Do the following:
- Explain how household insects and rodents can be
controlled in your home, community, and camp.
- Describe a system by which sewage can be safely
disposed of from housing in cities, from houses in
rural areas, and under primitive camping conditions.
- Do the following:
- Describe the health dangers from air, water, and
noise pollution.
- Describe health dangers from tobacco, alcohol, and
drug abuse.
Requirements:
? - 1996
1996 - current