CH. 3 PUBLIC HEALTH Flashcards
collection of the methods, skills, and activities necessary to determine whether a service or program is needed, likely to be used, conducted as planned and actually helps people
evaluation
a framework developed by William Haddon Jr, MD, as a method to generate ideas about injury prevention that address the host, agent, and environment and their impact in the pre-event, event, and post event phases of the injury process
Haddon matrix
the first national standards established to protect the confidentiality of a patient’s health information
HIPAA
a strategy for carrying out an intervention; includes goals, objectives, activities, evaluation measures, resource assessment and timeline
implementation plan
injuries that are purposefully inflicted by a person on himself or herself or on another person; examples include suicide or attempted suicide, rape, assault, domestic abuse, elder abuse, and child abuse
intentional injuries
in the context of prevention, specific measures or activities designed to meet a program objective; categories include education change, enforcement, engineering and economic incentives
interventions
information necessary for public health and research such as some geographic information, birth dates, and dates of treatment
limited data set
number of nonfatal injured or disabled people; usually expressed as a rate, meaning the number of nonfatal injuries in a certain population in a given time period divided by the size of a population
morbidity
death caused by injury and disease
mortality
state the intended effect of the program on participants or on the community in such terms as the participants’ increased knowledge, changed behaviors or attitudes, or decreased injury rates
outcomes objectives
something that offers automatic protection from injury or illness, often without requiring any conscious change of behavior by the person; child resistant bottles and air bags are some examples
passive interventions
keeping an injury or illness from occuring
primary prevention
state how a program will be implemented, describing the service to be provided, the nature of the service, and to whom it will be directed
process objectives
data that contain the patient’s name, address and other specific identifiers
PHI
an industry whose mission is to prevent disease and promote good health within groups of people
pubic health
