Communicable Disease Prevention and Control Flashcards
Arises from the fact that it is essential towards the people’s overall well-being.
Disease Causation and Process
Takes place when the health of an individual is not met fully.
Disease
Role of healthcare providers: To ensure that ____ will be taken care of.
Sick Individuals
____ of healthcare providers: Not able to give adequate care to people who needed health services.
Shortage
— Must allot important funds on the plans concerning promoting health, especially people in the community.
Local Government Units (LGUs)
If a community is not healthy, it is a ____ as to how LGUs in that area perform its function in making health a priority for everyone.
Reflection
— Diseases that can be transmitted from one person to another.
— Understand how to prevent and control these diseases from taking place in an individual.
Communicable Diseases
— Cases of a particular disease.
— People afflicted with a particular disease.
Morbidity
Top ten leading causes of morbidity.
- Acute Respiratory Infection
- Hypertension
- ALRTI and Pneumonia
- Urinary Tract Infection
- Bronchitis
- Influenza
- Acute Watery Diarrhea
- Asthma All Forms
- TB Respiratory
- Acute Febrile Illness
Healthcare providers need to provide ____ concerning the importance of promoting understanding on communicable diseases to lessen the likelihood of these diseases.
Massive Education
Officers in our community must be involved in understanding ____ that take place in the community itself.
Trends
Ten leading causes of death.
- Ischemic Heart Diseases
- Neoplasms
- Cerebrovascular Diseases
- Pneumonia
- Diabetes Mellitus
- Hypertensive Diseases
- Chronic Lower Respiratory Infections
- Respiratory Tuberculosis
- Other heart diseases
- Remainder of diseases of the genitourinary system
— Involves the study of the distribution and determinants of health-related states and events in populations, and the application of this study to control health problems (Last, 1983).
— Described as the basic science of public health.
— From the Greek words:
Epi: On or upon
Demos: People
Logos: The study
Epidemiology
In epidemiology, we get the ____, ____, and ____ to increase engagement, understanding, and awareness of healthcare providers in making sure their community is following the standards.
— Cases
— Number of People who have the Disease
— Analyze Possible Ways
Concerned with the determinants of health events in a population.
Frequency and Pattern