Chapter 3 Illness and Injury Prevention Flashcards
Collection of the methods, skills, and activities necessary to determine whether a services of program is needed, likely to be used, conducted as planned, and actually help people.
evaluation
The end point towards which intervention efforts are directed. A statement of changes sought in an injury problem,. stated in broad terms.
goals
A framework developed bu 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
A strategy for carrying out an intervention. Includes goals, objectives. activities, evaluation measures, resources, assessment, and timeline.
implementation plan
Any unintentional or intentional damage to the body resulting from acute exposure to thermal, mechanical, electrical, or chemical energy, or from the absence of such essentials as heat or oxygen.
injuries
A potentially hazardous situation that puts people in a position in which they could be harmed.
injury risk
The ongoing systematic collection, analysis, and interpretation of injury data essential to the planning, implementation, and evaluation of public health practice.
injury surveillance
Injuries that are purposefully inflicted by a person on himself or herself or on another person. Examples include suicide or attempted suicide, homicide, rape, assault, domestic abuse, elder abuse, and child abuse.
intentional injuries
Specific prevention measures or activities designed to meet a programme objective. Categories include education/behavior change, enforcement/legislation, engineering/technology, and economic incentives.
interventions
Number of nonfatally injured or disabled people. Usually expresses as a rate that represents the number of nonfatal injuries in a certain population in a given time period divided by the size of the population.
morbidity
Deaths caused by injury and disease. Usually expresses as a rate that represents the number of deaths in a certain population in a given time period divided by the size of the population.
mortality
Specific, time-limited, and quantifiable statements that summarise an expected result of an intervention.
objectives
Statements of the intended effect of the program on the participants or ton the community in such terms as the participants increased knowledge, changed behavior or attitudes, or decreased injury rates.
outcome objectives
Means of offering automatic protection from injury, often without requiring any conscious change of behavior by the individual; childe-resistant bottles mand air bags re examples.
passive interventions
The efforts made to keep an injury from accuring.
primary injury prevention
