(1) UNIT 1.1: Introduction to Public Health Flashcards by 3sha Ann

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A state of complete physical, mental, and social well-being and not merely the absence of disease of infirmity

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Health

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Factors influencing health and well-being

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Social and Economic Factors
Health Behaviors
Clinical Care
Physical Environment
Genes and Biology

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How many percent is Social and Economic Factors as a factor influencing health and well-being?

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40%

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How many percent is Health Behaviors as a factor influencing health and well-being?

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30%

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How many percent is Clinical Care as a factor influencing health and well-being?

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10%

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How many percent is Physical Environment as a factor influencing health and well-being?

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10%

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How many percent is Genes and Biology as a factor influencing health and well-being?

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10%

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Analyzing the health of a population and the threats it faces

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Public Health

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Measures directed to group of people to promote, protect, and preserve health

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Public Health

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Science of protecting the safety and improving the health of communities through education, policy making, and research for disease and injury prevention

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Public Health

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The comprehensive definition of public health is provided by ___

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Charles-Edward Amory Winslow, 1920

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Identify if public health or health care:

Population focus

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Public health

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Identify if public health or health care:

Public health ethic

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Public health

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Identify if public health or health care:

Joint laboratory and field environment

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Public Health

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Identify if public health or health care:

Clinical sciences peripheral to professional training

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Public Health

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Identify if public health or health care:

Prevention

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Public Health

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Identify if public health or health care:

Individual patient focus

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Health care

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Identify if public health or health care:

Personal service ethic

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Health care

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Identify if public health or health care:

Diagnosis and treatment emphasis

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Health care

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Identify if public health or health care:

Joint laboratory and patient involvement

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Health care

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Identify if public health or health care:

Private sector basis

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Health care

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Five steps in prevention and intervention

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Define the health problem
Identify the risk factors associated with the problem
Develop and test community-level intervention to control and prevent the cause of the problem
Implement intervention to improve the health of the population
Monitor those intervention to assess their effectiveness

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Main task is to develop intervention designed to prevent specific problems that have been identified

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Prevention

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3 levels of approaches

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Primary prevention
Secondary prevention
Tertiary prevention

Prevents illness or injury from occurring at all

Primary prevention

Seeks to minimize the severity of the illness or the damage due to an injury-causing event once the event has occurred

Secondary prevention

Seeks to minimize disability through rehabilitation

Tertiary prevention

An act performed for, with or on behalf of a person or population whose purpose is to assess, improve, maintain, promote, or modify health, functioning or health conditions

Health intervention

Being developed to provide a common tool for reporting and analyzing health interventions for statistical purposes

International Classification of Health Interventions (ICHI)

Covers interventions carried out by a broad range of providers across the full scope of health systems and includes interventions

ICHI

___ prevention may be out of the domain of PH, but ____ prevention are very much a part of public health's mission

Primary Secondary and Tertiary

Public health consists of:

Social medicine Preventive medicine Community medicine Community health

Identify if public health or health care: Clinical sciences essential to professional training

Health Care