End of Program Testing Review Flashcards
Carl D Perkins Law
Federal government act to increase funding for career and technical education for secondary and post-secondary institutions to prepare students to enter the workforce.
CTSO
Career and Technical Student Organization such as HOSA, SkillsUSA, TSA, BPA, DECA, FBLA, FCCLA, FFA
Parliamentary procedure
A process used by organizations such as CTSOs for proper proceedings for meetings, elections, voting, debates, amendments and actions.
Committee
A group of people selected to collaborate on a specific project, task or objective.
Acute stress
brief stress usually caused by reactive thinking
Episodic acute stress
Frequent occurrences of short stress events.
Chronic stress
Long term situation that is causing stress or a traumatic event that causes ongoing stress.
Physical stress
Headaches, aches, pains, increased heart rate, frequent sickness, tension throughout the body
Mental stress
Memory problem, inability to concentrate, anxiety
Behavioral stress
Changes in typical habits such as food intake, sleep patters, isolation or avoiding responsibilities
Emotional stress
Increased agitation or moodiness
Pathogenic
Something that is capable of causing a disease
Herd immunity
Resistance to the spread of an infectious disease within a population that is based on a high proportion of individuals having immunity due to previous infection or vaccination.
Schizophrenia
Serious brain disorder that causes people to interpret reality abnormally, and do not know what sights, sounds or experiences are real or what they are imagining.
Depression
Serious medical illness that negatively affects how you feel, the way you think and how you act
Attention Deficit/Hyperactivity Disorder
Ongoing pattern of inattention and/or hyperactivity-impulsivity that interferes with functioning or development
Bipolar disorder
Mental illness that causes unusual shifts in a person’s mood, energy, activity levels, and concentration which can make it difficult to carry out day-to-day task
Naloxone
Medication designed to rapidly reverse opioid overdose
Outbreak
Sudden increase in the disease frequency
Epidemic
A disease or disorder with increase in number of cases reported in a geographical area.
Pandemic
A disease with exponential growth of reported cases across several countries.
Endemic
A disease outbreak that is consistently present but limited to a particular region.
Correlation
The data indicates a pattern between two or more things
Causation
One thing results in something else
Clean Air Act
Federal government law that regulates emissions from stationary and mobile sources
Incidence calculation
(new cases)/(population x timeframe)
Prevalence calculation
(incidence x disease duration)
Mortality rate calculation
(number of deaths due to a disease/total population)
Morbidity rate calculation
(number of disease cases/total population)
Attack rate calculation
(number of confirmed or probable cases during a three month period/number of population at risk) x 100,000
Case-fatality calculation
(number of people that die from a disease/number of people that have the disease)
Epidemic curves
point source has one peak, continuous source has a peak that is sustained, propagated source has increasing peaks, intermittent source has spaced out peaks
