Misc.
Levels of Prevention
Chapter 1 Terminology
Chapter 2 Terminology
100

The capacity for a client to locate, understand, and apply healthcare information.

Health Literacy

100

Offer healthy cooking classes for families in the community

Primary prevention

100

Refers to a larger group whose members have a shared characteristic (such as age, gender, ethnicity, shared health issues, etc.)

Population

100

Understanding that self-awareness about one's own culture is an ongoing process. Respect and understand others beliefs & cultural norms.

Cultural Humility

200

This means valuing everyone equally to address avoidable inequalities

Health equity

200

An annual vision screening for a diabetic patient 

Secondary Prevention

200

Refers to a group of individuals living within the same geographical area

Community

200

The conditions in which people are born, grow, live, work, and age.

Social Determinants of Health

300

Differences in health and healthcare between populations

Health Disparity

300

Develop a portable immunization chart, such as a wallet card, that mobile population groups such as he homeless and migrant workers can carry with them.

Primary prevention

300

The term for when individual units are brought together into a whole or a sum of those individuals

Aggregate

300

Reflects the total number of cases of a disease in a population. The number of total cases of disease divided by the total number of people in the population.

Prevalence

400

Avoidable gaps in health outcomes

Health inequity

400

Develop community-based exercise programs for people identified as having increased blood pressure or increased blood sugar.

Tertiary prevention

400

Reflects the fact that groups and individuals are not all the same but differ in relation to culture, ethnicity, and race.

Diversity

400

A person who is unable or unwilling to return to their home country of nationality because of persecution or a well-founded fear of persecution on basis of race, religion, nationality, social group membership, or political opinion 

Asylee

500

Includes a range of personal, social, economic, and environmental factors

Determinants of Health

500

Develop individualized weight loss plans and counseling for individuals identified as obese on lifestyle changes is an example of:

Tertiary prevention

500

Customary beliefs, social forms, and material traits of a racial, religious, or social group

Culture

500

A way of depicting the total number of cases of the disease in the population that takes into account issues related to duration of the disease and the incidence of disease 

Prevalence pot