Health Influences
A factor that increases the chance of a negative health outcome is called this.
What is a risk factor?
This type of health focuses on groups of people rather than only one individual.
What is community health/public health?
Numbers, percentages, and counts are this type of evidence.
What is quantitative evidence?
This term means a measurement taken before a condition or activity changes.
What is baseline?
Blood vessels that carry blood away from the heart are called these.
What are arteries?
A factor that helps protect health is called this.
What is a protective factor?
A park, clinic, school, or library can be considered this type of community resource.
What is a community asset?
Interviews, observations, and people's experiences are this type of evidence.
What is qualitative evidence?
The number of heartbeats per minute is called this.
What is pulse?
Blood vessels that carry blood toward the heart are called these.
What are veins?
Transportation, housing, and access to food can all influence this.
What is health?
A planned action designed to improve a health problem is called this.
What is an intervention?
Giving everyone the exact same resource is called this.
What is equality?
The number of breaths taken per minute is called this.
What is respiratory rate?
The top number in a blood-pressure reading is called this.
What is systolic pressure?
A person's health is affected only by personal choices. True or false?
What is false?
Before choosing an intervention, public-health teams should first study this.
What is evidence/data?
Giving people what they specifically need to have a fair opportunity is called this.
What is equity?
If a student counts 36 heartbeats in 30 seconds, what is the pulse?
What is 72 bpm?
The bottom number in a blood-pressure reading is called this.
What is diastolic pressure?
Give one environmental or community factor that can influence health.
Accept housing, transportation, food access, healthcare access, safety, education, income, etc
Why should a public-health intervention be based on evidence?
To understand the problem, who is affected, and which response is most likely to help.
Two things occurring together does not automatically prove one caused the other. This is the difference between association and ________.
What is causation?
Why might a pulse of 125 bpm be normal in one situation but concerning in another?
Because context matters; exercise, stress, rest, recovery, and other conditions affect vital signs.
A buildup of fatty material inside an artery that can narrow blood flow is called this.
What is plaque?