Public Health Concepts
This concept means providing everyone with the same resources and opportunities, regardless of their individual needs.
What is Health Equality?
This term refers to circumstances in which people are: born, grow up, live, work, age & the systems put in place to deal with illness.
What are the Social Determinants of Health?
This model proposes that a person's health-related behavior depends on the person's perception of four critical areas: the severity of a potential illness, the person's susceptibility to that illness, the benefits of taking a preventive action, and the barriers to taking that action.
What is the Health Belief Model?
This type of data answers "Why" and is typically collected through observation, interviews and/or focus groups.
What is Qualitative Data?
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This level of prevention seeks to minimize the severity of an illness or injury if it occurs.
What is Secondary Prevention?
This has a greater impact on individual health than genetics.
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This term refers to the sense of control over one's life, and is an important concept in understanding health behavior and is often added as a fifth factor in the health belief model.
What is Self Efficacy?
§The PICOT approach provides guidance for framing research questions, particularly for clinical-based research aiming to establish evidence-based practice and improve the quality of research design. The "O" stands for this.
What is Outcome?
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What is 13?
This concept acknowledges that people have different needs and circumstances, and aims to provide tailored resources and support to ensure everyone has a fair and just opportunity to attain their highest level of health.
What is Health Equity?
This term refers to stressful or traumatic events occurring in childhood, such as abuse, neglect, and household challenges like domestic violence, substance abuse, or parental mental illness. These experiences lead to toxic stress, negatively impacting brain development, physical & mental health, & increasing the risk of health problems, risky behaviors, & decreased educational/employment opportunities.
What are Adverse Childhood Experiences (ACEs)?
A framework to understand health behaviors as a result of the social environment with 5 levels of influence.
What is the Ecological Model of Health?
Specific Aims in research should be SMART; the T in this acronym stands for this.
What is Timely / Time-oriented?
Dr. Kershner went to this school to earn a Bachelors in Health Science.
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This field in public health focuses on human populations, usually starting with an outbreak of disease in a community, and looks for common exposures, seeking the causative factor.
What is Epidemiology?
This type of justice focuses on the common good for a population.
What is Social Justice?
This model includes stages to increase awareness of unhealthy behavior, understand the benefits of change, plan concrete actions, modify the behavior, and strive to prevent relapse.
What is the Transtheoretical Model?
This study design method is used to test interventions where participants are randomly assigned to a treatment or control group.
What is a Randomized Controlled Trial (RCT)?
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What is 7?
What are Assess, Policy development, Assurance and Equity?
Health behaviors as a result of the social environment, with a focus on five levels of influence; identify the FIVE levels of influence on health.
What are Intrapersonal factors, Interpersonal relations, Institutional level, Community, and Public policy?
An example of this stage in the Transtheoretical Model would be: someone who is not exercising yet but committed to taking action in the next 6 months.
What is the Contemplation Stage?
Cohort Studies and Case-Control Studies are examples of this type of research.
What is Observational?
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