Levels of Prevention
The meningitis vaccine is an example of this level of prevention.
What is primary prevention?
The founder the Henry Street Settlement, which provided affordable healthcare and social services to the poor, she coined the term "public health nurse".
Who is Lillian Wald?
This models uses the OARS technique for encouraging a patient to change health behaviors.
What is Motivational Interviewing?
A medication prescribed for angina/chest pain.
What is nitroglycerin?
The ability of a test to correctly identify people without a disease.
What is specificity?
A low-dose chest CT scan is an example of this level of prevention.
What is secondary prevention?
An immunologist who served as the director of the National Institute of Allergy & Infectious Diseases from 1984 to 2022, he is widely known for his work with AIDS and Covid-19.
Who is Dr. Fauci?
This model focuses on and individual's perceived susceptibility, perceived benefits, perceived barriers, & self-efficacy to changing a health-related behavior.
What is the Health Belief Model?
It's the first-line medication for Type II Diabetes.
What is Metformin?
The inability to lie in a supine position.
What is orthopnea or paroxysmal nocturnal dyspnea/
Requiring new subdivisions be built with sidewalks is an example of this level of prevention.
What is primordial prevention?
A marine biologist and author, her 1962 book, Silent Spring, launched the modern environmental movement.
Who is Rachel Carson?
This model explains how individuals progress through various stages as they change a behavior.
What is the Transtheoretical Model of Change?
A diuretic, this medication is among early choices for control of hypertension.
What is hydrochlorothiazide?
The ability of a test to correctly identify patients with a disease.
What is sensitivity?
A parent meeting at a daycare center to discuss healthy nutrition for teens is an example of this type of prevention.
What is primary prevention?
A national hero, he created the first polio vaccine.
Who is Jonas Salk?
This evidence-based method demonstrates that a patient understands the instructions they've received from their nurse.
What is the Teach-Back Method?
Other than albuterol, this commonly inhaled medication is frequently perscribed for individuals with chronic obstructive pulmonary diseases.
What is a corticosteroid?
A person forced to flee their home due to conflict, violence, persecution/disasters who remains in their own country.
What is an internally displaced person?
A volunteer from Mended Hearts visits patients in the hospital post CABG is this type of prevention.
What is tertiary prevention?
Trained as a surgeon, he claimed to be a virologist. His 1998 study published in The Lancet proved tobe detrimental to public health throughout many parts of the world.
Who is Andrew Wakefield?
A model that explains how major systems fail from breakdowns of multiple barriers.
What is the Swiss Cheese Model?
The #1 prescription in the US, it's taken in the evening.
What is lisinopril?
One night every January, the name of the effort to account for every person experiencing sheltered & unsheltered homelessness.
What is the Point in Time Count?