Talk Nerdy to Me: Pop Health Edition
The health outcomes of a group of individuals, including the distribution of such outcomes within the group, and the factors affecting the outcomes.
What is population health?
In research, this term refers to the consistency or repeatability of a measurement or study over time. .
What is Reliability?
This process involves identifying the source of an infection, determining how it spreads, and preventing further cases after an outbreak occurs.
What is an outbreak investigation?
This term refers to conditions in the environments where people are born, live, learn, work, play, and age that affect health outcomes.
What are the Social Determinants of Health?
Refers to a patient's ability to read, understand, and act on health information such as medical forms or consent documents.
What is health literacy?
In this role, professionals collaborate with healthcare teams, community services, and patients to improve health outcomes and reduce hospital readmissions
Who is a case manager?
This term describes the complex system of social structures and institutions that produce and maintain racial inequities in health outcomes.
What is structural racism?
This early nursing leader founded the Henry Street Settlement House and pioneered public health nursing in the 1890s.
Who is Lillian Wald?
In cohort studies, this term refers to the proportion of new cases of a disease in a group over time.
What is incidence?
This 19th-century physician is famous for removing the handle from a London water pump to stop a cholera outbreak .
Who is John Snow?
This professional plays a key role in disease prevention, health education, and community outreach, often in collaboration with local health department.
Who is the public health nurse?
These community-based clinics receive federal funding to provide comprehensive primary care regardless of patients’ ability to pay, helping reduce racial and economic barriers to health.
What is a federally qualified health center (FQHC)?
What technique is used to ensure patient comprehension during medical visits?
What is "Teach Back"?
This social determinant of health affects access to healthcare, nutritious food, housing, and education, contributing significantly to disparities in health outcomes.
What is poverty?
These partnerships unite doctors, nurses, and lawyers to resolve patients’ legal and social needs that negatively impact their health.
What are medical-legal partnerships?
Speaking to legislators about staffing ratios or equitable healthcare access demonstrates this type of professional action.
What is advocacy?
Upstream factors are often influenced by these, like income inequality, education, and housing.
What are the social determinants of health?
Wearing a seatbelt while driving is an example of this type of health strategy aimed at lowering the likelihood of injury
What is Risk Reduction?
This type of surveillance requires public health professionals to actively seek out and collect data on disease cases, rather than waiting for reports to come in .
What is active surveillance?
The ability to secure consistent income through stable employment is an example of this key social determinant of health.
What is economic stability?
This U.S. federal program provides health insurance for people aged 65 and older, as well as certain younger people with disabilities.
What is Medicare?
This type of behavioral intervention focuses on improving community awareness launching campaigns, reducing stigma, and providing access to resources like counseling and therapy.
What is a mental health program?
Dr. Matthew suggests reforming this area of governance to dismantle systemic barriers that reinforce racial disparities in healthcare.
What is public policy and laws?
Hosting a health fair or creating educational posters on disease prevention are examples of this strategy to inform the public.
What is public health education and awareness?
People learn not only through direct experience, but also by watching others—a concept known as this.
What is Bandura's Theory of Learning?
Changing this part of the epidemiologic triangle—like improving sanitation—can help prevent disease even if the agent and host remain the same .
What is the environment?
This highly contagious viral infection, which can lead to severe respiratory illness, is primarily transmitted by coughing and sneezing.
What is Influenza (FLU)?
Living in a neighborhood with limited access to health care facilities or grocery stores is an example of this type of disparity.
What is a geographic or environmental disparity?
Described as actively encouraging patients diagnosed with type 2 diabetes to have foot, eye, and hemoglobin A1C screening tests every 3 months
What is tertiary prevention?
This plan is often coordinated by school nurses and administrators, and includes evacuation routes, communication strategies, and first aid procedures.
What is an emergency response plan?
Dr. Matthew argues that achieving this principle requires fair treatment, access, and opportunity for all individuals to attain their highest level of health.
What is health equity?
The re-emergence of the nursing movement calls for shifting from fee-for-service toward this type of outcome-based reimbursement model.
What is value-based or outcome-based payment reform?
Public health nurses often conduct this type of observational survey by driving through a community to assess its physical, social, and economic conditions.
What is a windshield survey?
This metaphor is used to describe how the total number of disease cases in a population is affected by both the inflow of new cases and the outflow from recovery or death.
What is the Prevalence Pot?
These types of diseases are one of the leading causes of death among children under five worldwide, particularly in regions with poor sanitation and access to clean water.
What are diarrheal diseases? ( e.g. cholera, rotavirus)
This term refers to differences in health outcomes caused by unequal access to resources like education, housing, and health care.
What are health inequities?
This public health intervention targets the population as a whole by increasing taxes on tobacco products, implementing smoking bans, and running anti-smoking media campaigns.
What is tobacco control policy?
This type of prevention involves the administration of vaccines to prevent the onset of diseases such as measles, before they occur.
What is primary prevention?
This process of urban redevelopment often displaces long-term residents of color, deepening racial and economic segregation and worsening health disparities.
What is gentrification?
This experiential learning approach combines community engagement with academic reflection to apply health equity and advocacy principles in real-world settings.
What is service learning?