Communicable disease control and infection in childhood

Question 1

Risk factors for unintentional child injury

Answer 1

Age
Gender
SES
Family size and type
Maternal education
Ethnic group

Question 2

Unintentional injuries to <5 year olds

Answer 2

Child development
Physical environment
Knowledge/behaviour of parents
Overcrowding and homelessness

Question 3

What does prevalence mean?

Answer 3

Number of cases in a defined population at a specified time

Question 4

What does incidence mean?

Answer 4

Number of new cases arising in a given period in a specified population

Question 5

Data available for mortality

Answer 5

ONS
DfT
Child death overview panel

Question 6

Data available for morbidity

Answer 6

Primary care
A&E
Police/fire service data

Question 7

What is epidemiology?

Answer 7

How often diseases occur in different groups of people and why

Question 8

What is the public health approach to unintentional childhood injury

Answer 8

Describes epidemiology of it

Identifies interventions

Question 9

What is surveillance?

Answer 9

Collecting information for action

Question 10

What are protective factors?

Answer 10

Who is getting ill and what are they doing

Question 11

4 stages of public health approach

Answer 11

• 1) Surveillance - what is the problem? Define issue through data collection
• 2) Identification - what are the causes? Conduct research to find out why it occurs and who it effects
• 3) Evaluate - what works and for whom? Design and evaluate interventions to see what works
• 4) Implementation - scaling up effective policy and programs and evaluate their impact and cost effectiveness