Family Health (Chp. 27)
These factors determine or influence weather disease or unhealthy results occur and biological, environmental, and behavioral risk.
What are health risks
The leading cause for morbidity and mortality in the US for ages 1-19 years old
What is unintentional injury
This act was passed in 1990 to provide protection against discrimination to millions of Americans with disabilities
What is the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA)
A physical or mental impairment that substantially limits one more major life activities of an individual
What is disability
This type of prevention educates community residents about behaviors during pregnancy that will reduce the risk of a baby born with a disability
What is primary prevention
A screening tool that helps individuals identify and understand their health risk and monitor health status over time.
Vaccine cost, shortages, refusal by parents, and changes in vaccine scheduling decrease successful immunizations
What are barriers
This act was passed in 1993 to provide job protection and continuous health benefits for eligible employees who need extended time to care for a family member due to an illness or injury.
What is the Family and Medical Leave Act (FMLA)
A term used to describe a chronic impairment that occurs during development and up to the age of 22 and lasts throughout a person's liftime
What is developmental disability
Unexpected events that can be positive or negative such as a job promotion or divorce
What is non-normative events
The assumption that decreases the number of risks or magnitude of risk will result tin lower probability of undesired events occurring
What is health risk reduction
Behaviors that place early and middle adolescents at risk for physical, emotional, and psychological harm
What are risk taking behaviors
Caregivers multiple roles and responsibilities that are coupled with financial strain can lead them to experience this phenomena
What is caregiver burdern
When an individual experiences difficulty performing basic ADLS's because of their disability
What is functional limitations
An ongoing issue for youth where an individual or a group of youth with perceived or actual power repeatedly or intentionally causes harm to other youth
What is Bullying
When a family is not able to cope with an event or multiple events and becomes disorganized or dysfunctional
What is a family crisis
A national safety surveillance program that requires providers and vaccine manufactures to report any adverse effects following the administration of routine recommended vaccines.
What is VAERS (Vaccine Adverse Event Reporting)
"The refusal or failure to fulfill any part of a person's obligations or duties to an elder"
What is neglect
An illness that is a long lasting condition such as DM
What is chronic disease
A legal way for a client to designate someone else to make health care decisions when he or she or unable to do so
What is a durable medical power of attorney
An event that is anticipated such as a birth of a child or a death of a grandparent
What is a normative event
An infant death under the age of one years old that remains unexplained after a through case investigation
What is SIDS
Enables a client to express wishes regarding the use of medical treatment in the event of a terminal illness
What is a Living Will
This act requires states to provide appropriate services to infants and children from birth to age 5 who have or are at risk for disability
What is Individuals with Disabilities Education ACT (IDEA)
This phase of home visiting involves establishing a nurse client relationship and implementing the nursing process
What is the in-home phase