Chapter 4
Non-medical factors that influence health outcomes.
What are social determinants of health?
Collective effort, work done by groups of us, aiming to create conditions that keep us all healthy.
What is public health?
A perspective that explains that our health is produced though a variety of levels.
What is the social ecological perspective?
Detection and management of risk factors for future disease.
What is primary prevention?
Members that experience a disproportionate burden of health and poor outcomes
What is a vulnerable population?
These concepts are not synonymous- one is value-based, the other is an empiric measure.
What are health equity and health equality?
More than one individual that shares one or more common characteristics.
What is a population?
Having a smoke-free home illustrates prevention at this social ecological level.
What is family?
When a disease is prevented from progressing, through disease control.
What is a tertiary prevention strategy?
Contributed to the decline in infant mortality rate. (At least 2)
What is prenatal care and advances in training?
Racial and ethnic minorities, socioeconomic status and sexual orientation.
What are sources for health inequity in the United States?
The organization that was the beginning of public health in the United States.
What is the U.S. Marine Hospital Service?
Another name for the social ecological perspective.
What is the multilevel approach?
An example of this type of prevention would be screening for high blood pressure.
What is secondary prevention?
To prevent disease, and preserve, promote, restore and protect health for the community and the population within it.
What is the GOAL of public health?
Means ensuring that everyone has access to health, and achieving that often requires giving special attention to those at greatest risk.
What is health equity?
The study of the conditions that shape distributions of health within and across populations.
What is population health science?
The perspective that states that our health is produced throughout our life.
What is the life course perspective?
The core principles for public health.
What are prevention & health equity?
Interventions that helped decrease deaths in cardiovascular disease and stroke. (At least 2)
What are lifestyle modifications, improved blood pressure control and smoking cessation?
Economic stability, social & community context, neighborhood & built environment, healthcare access & quality and education access & quality.
What are the social determinants of health?
The public health achievement that benefitted people across the socioeconomic spectrum.
Fluoridation of the water supply is an example of ____?
When an exposure occurs at a particular moment and can affect future health outcomes.
What is the critical period model?
Strategies to minimize disease and injury at a population level
What is prevention?
Healthy people making up healthy populations create productive workforces and thriving communities.
What is the Ultimate Goal of Population Health?