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ProMED, GPHIN, HealthMap and BlueDot are examples of this.
What are public health alert systems?
Excess potential risk of a cancer due to a specific exposure.
What is incremental lifetime cancer risk?
Error of rejecting the null when it is true.
What is Type I error (alpha)?
This word describes a state of dynamic physical, mental, social, and spiritual well-being that enables a person to achieve full potential and an enjoyable life.
What is wellness?
This is the last and highest rung on the Nuffield Stewardship Ladder.
What is eliminate choice?
Re-use of needles/syringes on multiple patients, use of contaminated needles to access multi-dose vials and re-use of lancets on multiple patients are examples of this category of lapse.
What is a definite IPAC lapse?
This global treaty to protect human health and the environment from persistent organic pollutants (POPs), including some PFAS; signed by 150 countries.
What is the Stockholm Convention?
The number or incidence of cases of disease in the population that can be attributed to an exposure
= IT – IU = [(a+b) / (a+b+c+d)] – (c/c+d)
What is population attributable risk?
This was established by PHAC to develop clinical practice guidelines that support primary care providers in delivering preventive health care.
What is the Canadian Task Force on Preventive Health Care?
This tool is used to determine how a program or policy will differentially impact populations based on pre-existing inequities.
Antigen, adjuvants, preservatives, stabilizer, additives and antibiotics are components of this.
What are vaccines?
This water advisory is issued when dermal or inhalation exposure to the contaminant of concern in drinking water could affect the skin, eyes, and/or nose.
What is a do not use advisory?
This study design provides data on exposure and outcome collected simultaneously, takes a “snapshot” of exposure and/or disease in a population.
What is a cross-sectional study?
This stage from the Transtheoretical model refers to those individuals who intend to take action within the next 30 days and have taken some behavioral steps in this direction.
What is the Preparation stage?
These are set of techniques by which governmental authorities wield their power in attempting to ensure support and effect social change, including laws, strategic plans and frameworks.
What are policy instruments?
This long-lasting process involves the formation of antibodies in response to antigenic stimulus through vaccination.
What is active immunization?
The Maximum Acceptable Concentration for this element is 1.5mg/mL.
What is fluoride?
Randomization, restriction and matching are ways to modify the study design to control for this.
What is confounding?
This concept from the health belief model refers to feelings on the seriousness of contracting an illness or disease.
What is perceived severity?
A MANIC HUG mnemonic refers to this group of persons and organizations who have a vested interest in the policy that is being promoted.
What are stakeholders?
Diseases of interest to organizations to inform prevention and regulatory programs, incidence in Canada, severity, communicability to general population, potential for outbreaks, socioeconomic burden, preventability, risk perception, increasing or changing pattern, necessity for public health response.
What are criteria for ranking national notifiable disease?
150g per month is the consumption limit of fresh/frozen tuna, shark, swordfish, escolar, marlin, and orange roughy in this population.
Who are women who are or may become pregnant and breast feeding mothers?
Strength, Specificity, Plausibility, Analogy, Consistency, Coherence, Experiment, Temporality, Biological gradient (Dose – Response) refer to these factors for determining this.
What is causality (SSPACCE-TB)? Bradford Hill Causality Criteria?
Complete, Compact, Connected, Cool, Convivial.
What are the 5Cs of a healthy community?
This sub-type of cost effective analysis is used when focus is on quality of life or if treatments have many outcomes.
What is a cost-utility analysis?