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| What are the roles of public health professionals in assessment? |
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1.work with communities to form partnerships
2.gather health-related data
3.identify health issues and resources
4.determine priority health concerns
5.implement solutions to address community health problems
6.use data to evaluate outcomes of public health policies and interventions |
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| brief exposure of high intensity |
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| study that compares persons with a disease with another group from the same pop without the disease, identifies risks and trends |
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| subsets of a defined pop can be identified and observed for a sufficient number of person-years to generate reliable incidence rates in the pop subset |
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| examines reltionship between diseases and other variables of interest as they exist in a particular pop at a particular time |
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| a measurement scale that arranges items into either of two mutually exclusive categories |
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| unifies molecular, social, and pop based epidemiology n a multilevel application of methods aimed at identifying causes, categorizing risks, and controlling PH problems |
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| epidemiologic study in which units of analysis are populations or groups of people rather than individuals |
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| the constant presence of a disease or infectious agent within a given geographic area or population group |
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| termination of all transmission of infection by extermination of the infectious agent through surveillance and containment |
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| NEW cases of a disease in a defined population within a specific period of time |
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| rating scale derived from a series of observations of variables |
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| intermittent performance and analysis of routine measuremnts aimed at detecting changes in the environment or health status of populations, not surveillance because it is not continuous |
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| concept that a given disease may have more than one cause |
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| frequency of a disease in a pop without distinguishing between incidence and prevalence |
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| epidemic occurring over a wide area |
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| number of TOTAL(not just new) instances of a disease in a given pop at a designated time |
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| research design that looks forward |
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| research design that uses review of past events |
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| the measure of the probability of a correct diagnosis or the probability that any given case will be identified by the test |
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| proportion of a truly nondiseased persons identified by the screening test |
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| monitoring all aspects of an experiment |
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| long term movement in an ordered series |
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| the study of the distribution ans determinants of health related states and events in specified populations |
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| relate primarily to the susceptibility and resistance to resistance to disease through biologic immunity, etc. |
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| the biologic or mechanical means of causing disease such as a parasite or virus |
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| physical, sociocultural economic components |
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| involve description, documentation, analysis, and interpretation of data to evaluate a current event or situation |
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| identify the cause of disease, disabilities, injuries, death, determine that a causal relationship exists between a factor and a disease or condition |
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| what is the mandela of health? |
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| a model of the human ecosystem, determinants of health(p 60) |
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| Who developed the systematic approach to health improvement? |
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| What are the four groups of factors that influence the health of people, families, and communities in the mandela of health? |
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1.the phychosocioeconomic enviornment
2.the physical environment
3.human biology
4.personal behavior |
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| What are the determinants of health according to the healthy people 2010's chart? (6) |
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-individual biology
-individual behavior
-physical environment
-social environment
-policies and intervention
-access to quality health care |
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| How can the determinants of health be classified? |
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-physical enviornment
-biologic
-behavioral
-social
-cultural
-spirital |
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| What is the flow of the planning cycle? |
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| assess --> plan --> implement --> evaluate |
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| information that is objective and measurable |
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| refer to information that reflect the uality or nature of things that cannot be numerically measured or analyzed |
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