Chapter 3 Flashcards
Haddon matrix
A framework developed by William Haddon Jr, MD, as a method to generate ideas about injury prevention that addresses the host, agent, and environment and their impact in the pre-event, event, and post-event phases of the injury process
Evaluation
Collection of 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
Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA)
The first national standards established to protect the confidentiality of a patient’s health information
Implementation plan
A strategy for carrying out an intervention; includes goals, objectives, activities, evaluation measures, resource assessment, and time line
Intentional injuries
Injuries that are purposefully inflicted by a person on himself/herself or on another person; examples include suicide or attempted suicide, homicide, rape, assault, domestic abuse, elder abuse, and child abuse
Interventions
In the context of prevention, specific measures or activities designed to meet a program objective; categories include educational/behavior change, enforcement/legislation, engineering/technology, and economic incentives
Limited data set
Information necessary for public health and research such as some geographic information, birth dates, and dates of treatments
Morbidity
Number of nonfatally 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 is the population
Mortality
Deaths caused by injury and disease; usually expressed as a rate, meaning the number of deaths in a certain population in a given time period divided by the size of the population
Outcome (impact) objectives
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
Passive interventions
Something that offers automatic protection from injury or illness, often without requiring any conscious change or behavior by the person; child-resistant bottles and air bags are some examples
Primary prevention
Keeping an injury or illness from occurring
Process objectives
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
Protected health information (PHI)
data that contains the patient’s name, address, and other specific identifiers
Public health
An industry whose mission is to prevent disease and promote good health within groups of people
