Unit 1A
The study of distribution and determinants of health-related states or events (including disease), and the application of this study to the control of disease and other health problems.
Epidemiology
In epidemiology, the most common denominator (bottom number) for rates, such as death rate.
100,000
The conditions in the environments where people are born, live, learn, work, play, worship, and age that affect a wide range of health, functioning, and quality-of-life outcomes and risks.
Social determinants of health
This model was developed to further the understanding of the dynamic interrelations among various personal and environmental factors.
Social ecological model
You can thank Alexander Fleming for the decreased volatility in life expectancy during the mid-20th century. This invention of his began mass production during this era.
Antibiotics (penicillin)
Only type of study that can determine true cause and effect relationships.
RCT
Commonly called "test-tube experiments", these studies are traditionally done in labs using isolated biological matter, such as human cells.
In vitro
Preventable differences in the burden of disease, injury, violence, or opportunities to achieve optimal health that are experienced by socially disadvantaged populations.
Health disparities
An approach to thinking that helps us become less and less and less wrong by challenging our assumptions.
Systems thinking
This 1982 release is #1 on the list of best-selling music albums of all time.
Thriller
A common (but significant) epidemiological statistic which measures of the probability that an observed difference could have occurred just by random chance.
p-value
A type of motivation strategy that involves linking an action you want to do with an action you need do. For example, listening to an audio book while at the gym.
Temptation bundling
Health care for individuals over the age of 65.
Medicare
An individual's belief in their capacity to execute behaviors necessary to produce specific performance attainments. More simply, my confidence in my ability to successfully complete a task.
Self-efficacy
This 2016 release sits atop the "most viewed" list on YouTube.
Baby Shark Dance
A type of observational study which follows research participants over a period of time, often many years.
Cohort
Measure of premature mortality, calculated with the equation 75 - age at death.
Years of potential life lost
Federal statute signed into law on March 23, 2010 that expanded health care coverage and cut the uninsured rate in half.
Affordable Care Act
In systems thinking, type of feedback loop that is problematic as it can lead to instability.
Reinforcing
At three, this European city has hosted the most Summer Olympics (Hint: 1908, 1948, 2012).
London
This quantitative measure of the magnitude of the experimental effect explains why cigarettes and meat consumption are not of equal severity.
A measure of overall disease burden, expressed as the number of years lost due to ill-health, disability and/or early death.
Disability adjusted life years
Motivational concept that suggests people are better at tackling their goals when they start on so-called temporal landmarks (i.e. start of the new year, the first of the month, beginning/end of the week).
Fresh start effect
A major randomized housing mobility experiment sponsored by the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) which found improved health outcomes for those who move from high poverty areas to lower poverty areas.
Moving to Opportunity
In addition to Hawaii, this US state chooses not to observe Daylight Savings Time.
Arizona