Chapter 4
Non-medical factors that influence health outcomes.
What are social determinants of health?
Collective effort, work done by groups of us, aiming to create conditions that keep us all healthy.
What is public health?
A perspective that explains that our health is produced though a variety of levels.
What is the social ecological perspective?
Detection and management of risk factors for future disease.
What is primary prevention?
Who are qualified interpreter in a healthcare setting?
Credentialed (badged) employee, Qualified bilingual employee, Remote video interpreter (VRI)
These concepts are not synonymous- one is value-based, the other is an empiric measure.
What are health equity and health equality?
More than one individual that shares one or more common characteristics.
What is a population?
Having a smoke-free home illustrates prevention at this social-ecological level.
What is family level from the multilevel approach?
When a disease is prevented from progressing, through disease control.
What is a tertiary prevention strategy?
Contributed to the decline in infant mortality rate. (At least 2)
What is prenatal care and advances in training?
Racial and ethnic minorities, socioeconomic status and sexual orientation.
What are sources for health inequity in the United States?
The organization that was the beginning of public health in the United States.
What is the U.S. Marine Hospital Service?
Another name for the eco-social perspective.
What is the multilevel approach?
An example of this type of prevention would be screening for high blood pressure.
What is secondary prevention?
To prevent disease, and preserve, promote, restore and protect health for the community and the population within it.
What is the GOAL of public health?
Means ensuring that everyone has access to health, and achieving that often requires giving special attention to those at greatest risk.
What is health equity?
The study of 1) the conditions that shape distributions of health within and across populations; 2) the mechanisms through which these conditions manifest as the health of individuals
What is a population health science?
The perspective that states that our health is produced throughout our life.
What is the life course perspective?
The core principles for public health.
What are prevention & health equity?
Interventions that helped decrease deaths in cardiovascular disease and stroke. (At least 2)
What are lifestyle modifications, improved blood pressure control and smoking cessation?
Economic stability, social & community context, neighborhood & built environment, healthcare access & quality and education access & quality.
What are the social determinants of health?
Fluoridation of the water supply is an example of ___?
The public health achievement that benefitted people across the socioeconomic spectrum.
When an exposure occurs at a particular moment and can affect future health outcomes.
What is the critical period model?
Actions that ward off or forestall the occurrence of disease in populations.
What is prevention?
1.Identifying a health problem
2.Identifying the causes or determinants of the problem
3.Developing and testing interventions to prevent or control these determinants
4.Implementing and monitoring these interventions to assess their effectiveness
What is the prevention-based public health approach?