Community Health Flashcards
Health insurance for elderly and disabled (HINT: Medical-is only for ELDERLY)
Medicare
Health insurance for the poor?
Medicaid
Consolidated Omnibus Budget Reconciliation Act- offers insurance to workers when they no longer work?
COBRA
GRANTS:
Lump sum of money given to group to use their discretion to accomplish program goal?
Block grants
GRANTS:
Specifies where monies are to be used?
Line item grant
Broad based statement of what changes will occur as a result of the program?
Goal
Specific statement that can be measured, the desired result of the program; based on the needs of the program?
Objective
Learner has incomplete or inaccurate information?
Unawareness
Correct information is obtained but lacks personal meaning?
Awareness
Learner personalizes information?
Self-Interest
Old ideas are discarded for new; leaner is motivated to act?
Involvement
Learner tests new concepts based on perceived needs?
Action
Leaner begins to experience gratification and self-satisfaction; behavior is modified?
Habit
The number of live births (think prenatal care)?
Natality
The rate of an illness in a population?
Morbidity
The number of deaths in a population?
Mortality
The number of new cases in a population during a time period; conveys information abut the risk of contracting a disease?
Incidence
The number of new and old cases of a disease in a given population in a given period of time; tells how wide spread the disease is?
Prevalence
An incidence rate calculated for a particular population for a single disease outbreak?
Attack
An outbreak of disease over a wide geographical area such as a continent
Pandemic
An unexpectedly large number of cases of disease in a particular time and place?
Epidemic
A disease that occurs regularly in a population as a matter of course; EXPECTED normal level of disease; predictable?
Endemic
A group is observed over a long period of time?
Longitudinal Study
A cohort is classified by exposure to one or more specific risk factors observed into the future to determine the rate at which the disease develops?
Prospective Study
Case control study, seeks to compare those diagnosed with a disease with those who do not have the disease?
Retrospective Study
What examination method is, Complete containing mouth mirror, explorer, lighting, complete radiographs, study models and test?
Type 1
What examination method is, Limited exam including mouth mirror, explorer, lighting and limited radiographs?
Type 2
What examination method is, using mouth mirror and lighting only?
Type 3
What examination method is, with tongue depressor and lighting only?
Type 4
Each element of the population has an “equal chance” of being selected (reduces chances of bias) is?
Random sampling
Selecting an element according to certain “subgroups”? Example; identifying a school and selecting two from it
Stratified Sampling
Selecting the “nth” participant?
Systematic Sampling
Someone familiar with the population selects the sample; high chance of bias?
Judgment Sampling
Sample group is chosen based solely on “convenience”?
Convenience Sampling
