Chapters 1-2
Where people are born, live, learn, work, play, worship, and age.
What are the Social Determinants of Health
The number of years a person is expected to live
What is life expectancy?
A test that was positive, but the disease is not present.
What is a false-positive?
Identifying the initial case, aka the index case, in an outbreak. (pandemic prevention framework)
What is detecting?
The assurance that a program or school is offering a program that aligns with the standards set for that field of study.
What is accreditation?
Contributory cause criteria where the relative risk (RR) is greatly increased for those with the risk factor compared to those without the risk factor
What is the strength of the relationship?
The metric that is used to measure income inequality.
What is GINI Index?
Used for the early detection of diseases
What is screening?
Outbreaks of a disease are a lot less likely to spread through a community when a high percentage of its members are immunized.
What is herd immunity?
These defined boundaries, established by state legislatures and licensing boards, determine the specific services and actions a professional is authorized to perform.
What is the scope of practice?
A contributory cause when results across various studies produce similar results
What is consistancy of the relationship
The number of healthy years a person is expected to live.
What is HALE?
The healthcare approach that leaves the responsibility on individuals to pursue the resources needed for health within a competitive system.
What is market justice?
How a hazard enters our body.
What is the route of exposure?
Verification that an individual has the desired or required qualification to do a particular job.
What is credentialing?
Intervention level: a patient with elevated blood sugars is provided with exercise and monitoring equipment to prevent diabetes.
What is secondary intervention
The number of years lost to disability and premature death due to a specific disease or cause.
What is DALY?
The approach works toward equitable distribution of health services regardless of personal circumstances.
What is Social Justice?
Once community transmission has become widespread, actions are needed to reduce further transmission.
What is mitigation?
Physicians who primarily see and care for hospitalized patients.
Who are hospitalists?
Intervention level: A patient is prescribed PT to help with rehabilitation from a stroke.
What is tertiary intervention?
Data such as births, deaths, cause of deaths, marriages, and divorces.
An attribute, characteristic, or exposure of an individual that increases the likelihood of developing a disease or injury.
What is a risk factor?
Our surroundings, including our homes, buildings, roads, and sidewalks.
What is the build environment?
PCP
What is a primary care provider?