This means what?
The capacity for a client to locate, understand and apply healthcare information
Health Literacy
Offer health cooking classes for families in the community
Primary Prevention
Refers to a larger group whose members have a shared characteristic (such as age, gender, ethnicity, shared health issues, etc.)
population
Older adults are more vulnerable to acquiring a communicable disease and at higher risk for morbidity and mortality from it. (True or False)
True
Understanding that self-awareness about one's own culture is an ongoing process. Respect and understand others beliefs & cultural norms.
cultural humility
This means valuing everyone equally to address avoidable inequalities
Health Equity
An annual vision screening for a diabetic patient
Secondary Prevention
Refers to a group of individuals living within the same geographical area
community
Name 3 of the 5 vaccines recommended for Adults over 65
1. Pneumonia
2. Influenza
3. Covid-19
4. Shingles
5. Tdap
The conditions in which people are born, grow, live, work, and age.
Social determinants of health
Differences in health and health care populations
Health Disparity
Develop a portable immunization chart, such as a wallet card, that mobile population groups such as he homeless and migrant workers can carry with them.
Primary prevention
The term for when individual units are brought together into a whole or a sum of those individuals
Aggregate
The most common form of unintentional injury and one of the leading causes of injury and death in the older adult
falls
Reflects the total number of cases of a disease in a population. The number of total cases of disease divided by the total number of people in the population.
prevalence
Avoidable gaps in health outcomes
health inequality
Develop community-based exercise programs for people identified as having increased blood pressure or increased blood sugar.
Tertiary prevention
Reflects the fact that groups and individuals are not all the same but differ in relation to culture, ethnicity, and race.
Diversity
Name 2 of the 3 emerging communicable diseases in adults over 50
1. HIV
2. STIs (Sexually transmitted infections)
3. HCV (Hepatitis C)
A way of depicting the total number of cases of the disease in the population that takes into account issues related to duration of the disease and the incidence of disease
Prevalence Pot
includes a range of personal, social, economic and environmental factors
determinants of health
Develop individualized weight loss plans and counseling for individuals identified as obese on lifestyle changes is an example of
tertiary prevention
Customary beliefs, social forms, and material traits of a racial, religious, or social group
culture
Name 2 of the 3 main reasons the elderly are at increased vulnerability to communicable diseases
1. Decreased Immunity
2. Existence of comorbid illness
3. Undernutrition
A person who is unable or unwilling to return to their home country of nationality because of persecution or a well-founded fear of persecution on basis of race, religion, nationality, social group membership, or political opinion
Asylee