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| • The interaction between a group of people who share a common interest or issue (e.g., cancer) |
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| willful and repeated harm, inflicted through the use of computers, cell phones, and other electronic devices. |
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| • Any type of harassment or bullying via e-mail, chatroom, instant messaging, a website/blogs, texting, or videos/pictures posted on websites or sent through cell phones |
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| online environments in which users interact with one another around a set of common interests or shared purpose related to health |
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| online health communities |
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| o Discussion boards, chat, virtual environments, email, IM |
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| online health communities |
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| 6 goals for using social networks |
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emotional support
accountablitty
motivation
advice
impression management
building and shaping the network |
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| • Critical components of online interactions around health |
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| • Key mechanism for supporting maintenance of healthy behaviors (e.g., weight loss) |
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| • Significant goal in driving people’s health-related interactions online |
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eliminate disparities
focus prevention |
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financial- sin tax
focus on treatment instead of prevention
decrease standards of care |
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eliminate disparities
affordable insurance
promote and enable healthy lifestyle |
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| suggestions for HC reform |
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limit unnecessary procedures
universal electronic health records |
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| FDA protocol for Plan B was not followed because of |
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| non scientific/ medical reasons |
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| • Ability to interact effectively with people of different cultures. |
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| • economic and social conditions under which people live that ultimately determine their health |
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| social determinants of health |
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| • gaps in quality of health & HC across racial, ethnic, sexual orientation & SES |
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| absence of persistent health differences over time, between racial and ethnic groups. |
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| • belief in the superiority of one's own ethnic group |
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| • Comprehensive assessment of mortality and morbidity due to diseases, injuries and risk factors for all regions of the world |
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| • Ability to interact effectively with people of different cultures. |
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| • economic and social conditions under which people live that ultimately determine their health |
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| social determinants of health |
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| • gaps in quality of health & HC across racial, ethnic, sexual orientation & SES |
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| absence of persistent health differences over time, between racial and ethnic groups. |
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| • belief in the superiority of one's own ethnic group |
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| • Comprehensive assessment of mortality and morbidity due to diseases, injuries and risk factors for all regions of the world |
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| comprehensive asthma treatment |
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1) high quality clinical care
2) case management and educational counseling
3) community and home interventions |
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| critical test of the ability of the US heath care system (asthma) |
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| treating, managing, preventing and reducing burdon of asthma |
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| • A geographical region where a particular disease is prevalent |
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| • Affecting or tending to affect a disproportionately large number of individuals within a population, community, or region at the same time. |
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| • Occurs when the incidence rate of a certain disease substantially exceeds what is "expected," based on recent experience. |
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| • Epidemic of an infectious disease that spreads through human populations across a large region, such as a continent. |
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| • An infectious disease whose incidence has increased in the past 20 years and threatens to increase in the near future |
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| o Multi-level & multi-stakeholder interaction between health and foreign policy |
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| • Collection of science and technology tools used to manage geographic relationships and integrate information. |
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| Geographic & Information Systems (GIS) |
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| o How is GIS applicable to public health? |
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• Research Tools and Planning
• Spatial Decision Support Systems
• Emergency Response Systems |
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| Scientists believed that we were long overdue for another pandemic event because of |
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population growth
ongoing HIV/AIDS pandemic
availability of air travel |
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| H1N1 influenza A virus first appeared in Mexico |
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| World Health Organization (WHO) officials had created a three-pronged strategy to mitigate the expected impact of H1N1 |
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1) containment,
2) rapid vaccine development,
3) the use of anti-viral therapies. |
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| • Encompasses the largest players in the pharmaceutical industry, including Bristol-Myers Squibb, GlaxoSmithKline, Merck, Monsanto, Pfizer, etc. |
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| • Big Pharma: How the World's Biggest Drug Companies Control Illness (2006) by Jacky Law |
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| • Examines how major pharmaceutical companies determine which health problems are publicized and researched. |
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| example of how a product designed to be beneficial caused one of the biggest public health disasters of the 20th century |
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| Diethylstilbestrol (DES) tragedy |
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| laws and regulations that protect public health are rarely |
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