Key Terms
________ determinants of health include: portable water and sanitation, affordable and clean energy, climate action, life below water, and life on land.
Ecological
This is an intervention aimed at the population at risk such as antismoking campaigns for teens at a high school (Universal/selected/indicated).
What are the three levels of health prevention?
Primary, secondary, and tertiary prevention
Addresses acute and chronic disease through medical interventions.
Downstream approach
Conditions in the places where people live, learn, work, and play that affect a wide range of health and quality-of-life risks and outcomes.
Social determinants of health (SDOH)
This is an intervention aimed at the entire population, regardless of risk, such as an antismoking campaign ad on television (universal/selected/indicated).
Universal
Vaccines and hand washing are an example of which level of prevention?
Primary prevention
Focuses on eliminating the factors that increase risk to a population's health by addressing individual social needs, such as changing health behaviors related to preventing disease and improving access to needed resources, such as screening.
Upstream approach.
Total number of disease cases, regardless of stage, in a population.
Prevalence.
What needs to be assessed and considered prior to educating a patient or client?
Health literacy
The aim of this prevention is to reduce disability.
Tertiary
You are educating law makers on the importance of providing a park with walking spaces and safe playground equipment. This is what type of prevention strategy? (Clinical, behavioral, environmental)
Environmental
A way of depicting the total number of cases of the disease in the population that considers issues related to the duration of the disease and the incidence of the disease.
Prevalence pot
This is an intervention aimed at the people who are at highest risk, such as antismoking intervention for teens who are already smoking (universal/selected/indicated).
Indicated
Health screenings such as mammograms and skin integrity screenings in the elderly are examples of what level of prevention?
Secondary prevention.
You are teaching a client about their new diagnosis in the provider's office. This is what type of prevention strategy? (Clinical, behavioral, environmental)
Clinical
Oral and written.
A good screening test should have high _________ and _________.
It could be unethical to perform this action if there are no resources to follow up with a potential new diagnosis.
Screening.
You are teaching a diabetic how to modify their eating habits. This is what type of prevention strategy? (Clinical, behavioral, environmental)
Behavioral.