Chapter 3 - Illness and Injury Prevention

Question 1

Chronology

Answer 1

The arrangement of events in time

Question 2

Epidemiology

Answer 2

The study of the causes, patterns, prevalence, and control of disease in groups of people

Question 3

Epidemiologist

Answer 3

Medical professional who studies the causes, distribution, and control of disease in populations

Question 4

Injury

Answer 4

Intentional or unintentional damage to a person that resulted from acute exposure to thermal, mechanical, electrical, or chemical energy or from the absence of such essentials as heat or oxygen

Question 5

Injury Risk

Answer 5

A real or potential hazardous situation that puts individuals at risk for sustaining an injury

Question 6

Injury Surveillance

Answer 6

An ongoing systematic collection, analysis, and interpretation of injury data essential to the planning, implementation, and evaluation of public heath practice, closely integrated with the timely dissemination of the data to those who need to know

Question 7

Intentional Injury

Answer 7

Injuries and deaths self-inflicted or perpetrated by another person, usually involving some type of violence

Question 8

Morbidity

Answer 8

Nonfatal injury rates

Question 9

Mortality

Answer 9

Death rate

Question 10

Primary Injury Prevention

Answer 10

Keeping an injury from occurring

Question 11

Secondary Injury Prevention

Answer 11

Preventing further injury from an event that has already happened

Question 12

Teachable Moment

Answer 12

The time just after an injury has occurred when the patient and observers remain acutely aware of what has happened and may be more receptive to learning how the event or illness could have been prevented

Question 13

Years of Potential Life Lost (YPLL)

Answer 13

A method that assumes that, on average, most people will live a productive life until the age of 65 years.