Chapter 1
Aggregate
Individual units brought together into a whole or a sum of those individuals
What does WHO do?
Offer global leadership in health
Conduct health research
Set norms and standards for health
Think Globalization
Clinical disease
with the development of symptoms
Environmental prevention
focus on health protection by improving the safety of the environment
Refugee
Outside home country and unable or unwilling to return because of persecution
Policy development
refers to using scientific knowledge to develop comprehensive public health policies.
Healthy 2030 basics
To promote and evaluate the nation’s efforts to improve the health and well-being of its people
Prevalence pot
way of depicting the total number of cases of a disease in the population.
Health Disparity
If a health outcome occurs to a greater or lesser extent among populations
Asylee
Unable or unwilling to return to country of nationality because of persecution
Population-focused
Basic knowledge of the different scientific disciplines
Social determinants of health
are the conditions in which people are born, grow, live, work and age
Universal prevention
interventions apply to the whole population
Health inequity
Avoidable gaps In healthcare
Socioeconomic status
A composite measure of the interrelated concepts of income, education, and occupation
Cultural humility
underlying quality needed to implement interventions that improve health in partnership with communities and populations.
Ecological determinants of health
potable water and sanitation, affordable and clean energy, climate action, life below water and life on land
Selected prevention
prevention interventions are aimed at a group of the population that has an increased risk for developing disease.
Health gradient
Health gradually improving as income improves
Vulnerability
indicates the degree to which an individual, population, or organization is unable to anticipate, cope with, resist, prepare for, and recover from the impact of disease and disasters
Epidemiology
the study of the occurrence of disease in humans
Subclinical phase
after exposure when pathological changes are occurring without the person being aware of them
Indicated prevention
interventions are provided to populations with a high probability of developing disease
SDOH
Environmental conditions (live, work, play, worship)
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