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What is the information gathered when measuring health?
Epidemiological Data
What is another word for an infections disease?
Communicable
What level of prevention includes measures that lead to an early diagnosis and treatment of a disease
Secondary Prevention
What is the average number of years of life remaining to a person at a particular age and is based on a given set of age-specific death rates, generally the mortality conditions exsisting in the period mentioned?
Life Expectancy
What type of risk factor can be changed or controlled?
Modifiable
What is a measure of some event, disease, or condition in relation to a unit of population, along with some specification of time?
Rate
What is a measure of rate expressed for the total population?
Crude
What is a magnitude of a rate of some event, disease, or condition in a unit of population that occurs regularly in a population?
Endemic
What term describes a disease that is not infectious?
Noncommunicable
What is the term used to describe an unexpectedly large number of cases of an illness, specific health related behavior, or other health related event in a population?
Epidemic
What is a measure of rate for a particular age of people?
Specific
What is the number of years of healthy life expected, on average, in a given population
Health-Adjusted Life Expectancy
What is a measure of rate expressed for the total population but limited to certain characteristics?
Adjusted
What is a measure of premature mortality that is calculated by subtracting a person's age at death from seventy-five years?
Years of Potential Life Lost
What is the rate that describes a year of "healthy" life lost due to being in states of poor health or disability?
Disability-Adjusted Life Years
What are the terms used to describe an outbreak over a wide geographical area?
Pandemic
These are the four major categories of prevention limits.
1) Biological
2) Technological
3) Ethical
4) Economic
What refers to a person or group's perceived physical and mental health over time?
Health-Related Quality of Life
A term describing the difference between populations due to health inequalities
Health Disparity
The new skills of policy development, policy advocacy, organizational change, community development, empowerment of individuals, and economic supports are are examples of this health education and promotion approach.
Population-Based Approaches
Which two principles of participation that must be present for health education/promotion to be successful?
Empowerment and Cultural Competency
Which model applies to the prevention of noncommunicable diseases?
Multicausation Disease Model
According to the chain of infection model, how can risk be reduced?
Through individual intervention or by placing barriers between means of transmission and portal of entry
Six surveys were referred to in the reading. Can you name three of them?
1) National Health Interview Survey (NIHS)
2) National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey (NHANES)
3) National Health Care Surveys (NHCS)\
4) Behavioral Risk Factor Surveillance System (BRFSS)
5) Youth Risk Behavior Surveillance System (YRBSS)
6) National College Health Assessment (NCHA)
According to the Communicable Disease Model, when does communicable disease transmission occur?
When a susceptible host and a pathogenic agent exist in an environment conducive to disease transmission