Question

A 2023 HHS report on this issue compares its effects to smoking 15 cigarettes daily. For 10 points each:
[10e] Name this issue, the subject of a WHO commission chaired by US Surgeon General Vivek Murthy. Public health experts have warned of an “epidemic” of this issue that worsened during COVID lockdowns.
ANSWER: loneliness [accept synonyms like isolation; accept answers about a lack of social connection; accept loneliness epidemic; reject “solitude”]
[10m] The impacts of loneliness on health are studied in a subfield of epidemiology named for this word. This is the first word in a four-word term for non-health “determinants of health” like housing or food insecurity.
ANSWER: social [accept social epidemiology or social determinants of health; prompt on SDOH]
[10h] Unlike models that focus on critical or sensitive periods of life, this model focuses on harmful events that lead to other events impacting health, like poor childhood diet that leads to earlier menopause. This three-word model builds on the accumulation model.
ANSWER: chain of risk [or word forms like chaining of risk; prompt on accumulation of risk until it is read]
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TournamentEditionExact Match?HeardPPBEasy %Medium %Hard %
2024 Chicago Open07/28/2024Y215.00100%50%0%