Terms & Phrases
Economic and social conditions that influence individual and group differences in health status
What are Social Determinants of Health?
Create, champion, and implement policies, plans, and laws that impact health
What is Policy Development?
Health disparities
What are differences in morbidity and mortality due to various causes experience by specific sub-populations?
Providing comprehensive patient care
What is an activity that DOES NOT fall under public health practice? (Or what is traditional health care?)
A process and a product.
What is community health assessment?
Core Public Health Functions
What are Assessment, Policy Development, & Assurance?
Assure a competent environmental health workforce
What is an example of a public health service related to Assurance?
The number of live-born infants who die before their first birthday per 1,000 live births.
What is infant mortality rate?
A group of cases of a specific disease clearly in excess of what one would normally expect in a particular area.
What is an epidemic?
Shelby County Health Department health priorities
What are Access to Health Care, Mental Health, Chronic Disease, Violence, and Poverty?
The systematic collection, analysis, and dissemination of health data.
What is surveillance?
Create, champion, and implement policies, plans, and laws that impact health.
What is an essential service under the core public function, policy development?
Health indicator
What is a measurement of the state of health of a specific individual, group, or population?
The cornerstone of public health
What is primary prevention?
The Community Health Assessment model used by Shelby County Health Department.
What is MAPP?
Using the words or ideas of another person as if they were your own, and without giving proper credit to the sources you have used.
What is plagiarism?
Investigate, diagnose, and address health problems and hazards affecting the population
What is Assessment?
This resource provides comparative health indicator data for every US county.
What is the County Health Rankings?
The act of intervening before a health problem occurs.
What is primary prevention?
This resource is useful for understanding the demographic profile of a state or county.
What is the US Census Bureau?
Everyone has the resources and services needed to be as healthy as possible.
What is health equity?
Assure an effective system that enables equitable access to the individual services and care needed to be healthy
What is assurance?
A resource that provides information about the leading health indicators in the US.
What is Healthy People 2030?
Immunization
What is an example of primary prevention?
Determining which public health needs are to be addressed.
What is prioritization?