Health and Wellness
The compiled health outcomes of a group of individuals.
Population Health
The differences in the incidence, prevalence, mortality, and burden of disease among specific population groups.
Health disparities
This is the measurement of the number of new cases of a health condition.
Incidence
The model that suggests people will change their behavior if they feel they are at risk for an illness or injury.
Health Belief Model
Disability that occurs after birth.
Acquired
The management of factors that could lead to impairment, disease, or disability.
Prevention
Programs to improve the health of populations.
Prevention programs
The measure of how people perceive their health.
Self-assessment of health
An action taken by individuals that results in supporting health and preventing illness.
Health behavior
Disability that one is born with.
Congenital
The provision of information that makes positive contributions to the health of consumers.
Health Promotion
Efforts designed to protect people from acquiring an illness or injury. Example: immunizations.
Primary prevention
Mortality
The theory that people acquire skills and perform new behaviors by enacting them, being reinforced, and observing others.
Social Cognitive Theory
One of the major causes of physical injury, immobility, psychosocial dysfunction, and nursing home placement in the elderly.
Falls
A condition of good physical, emotional, and mental health.
Wellness
The efforts to reduce the duration, severity, and impact of an illness or a disability. Example: occupational therapy before a shoulder surgery
Secondary prevention
This is the estimation of how long a person is expected to live.
Life expectancy
The model that states people adopt health behaviors in a series of stages.
Transtheoretical Model
The general term to describe deterioration in cognitive functioning that challenges a person's ability to meet the intellectual demands of everyday life.
Dementia
The government initiative that focuses efforts to improve the health of the nation.
Healthy People
The rehabilitation, adaptation, and accommodation that occur after an illness or injury. Example: occupational therapy post-car accident
Tertiary prevention
This measures and describes the impact health status has on quality of life in individuals and groups.
Health-related quality of life
This legislation was the most significant regulatory change to the US health care system since Medicare/Medicaid in 1965.
Affordable Care Act
This status means an individual is unable to leave their home except for very specific reasons.
Homebound