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Exam 1 Flashcards

1
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Occurs after the development of a disease or risk factor, but before symptoms appear.

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secondary

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2
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Occurs after the initial occurrence of symptoms, but before irreversible disability.

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tertiary

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3
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What is the “P” in PERIE process?

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Problem

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4
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often useful for displaying the changes in the age of distribution that occur over time.

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population pyramids

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5
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The number of new cases of a disease in a year divided by the number of people in the at-risk population.

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Incidence

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6
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Efforts to change behavior based on info.

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Information/Education

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7
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Implies that as social and economic development occurs, different types of diseases become prominent .

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Epidemiological Transition

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8
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What works to reduce health impact?

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Recommendation

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9
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How can we get the job done?

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Implementation

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10
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How well does the intervention work in practice?

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Evaluation

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11
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The number of people living with a disease divided by the number of people in the at-risk population.

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Prevelance

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12
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Required by law or institutional sanction.

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obligation

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13
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Rewards to encourage/discourage.

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motivation

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14
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Implies that countries frequently move from poorly balanced diets often deficient in nutrients, proteins, and calories to a diet of highly processed food, including fats, sugars, and salts.

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nutritional transition

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15
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What is/are the contributory causes?

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Etiology

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16
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Takes place BEFORE the onset of the disease.

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primary intervention

17
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Coordination of public health and healthcare delivery based upon shared evidence-based systems thinking: Antibiotic resistance, global collaboration, and climate change.

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population health

18
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APHA
Demonstration of infection as origins of disease.
Germ Theory (Louis Pasteur)

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Contagion Contra

19
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  • “savior of mothers”
  • Early pioneer of antiseptic procedures
  • Determined Puerperal fever (childbed fever) could be reduced by requiring hand washing in obstetrical clinics
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Ignaz Semmelweis

20
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  • 1850’s
  • “Father of Epidemiology
  • Established importance of careful data collection, and documentation of rates of disease before and after intervention to evaluate effectiveness.
  • Closing of Broad-Street Pump-Chlorea-Containment water
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John Snow

21
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The totality of all evidence-based public and private efforts throughout the life cycle that preserve and promote health and prevent disease, disability (morbidity), and death.

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Public Health

22
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  • Late 1700’s
  • English physician
  • Noted that couopox could protect against smallpox
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Edward Jenner

23
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Education income, race

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socioeconomic cultural

24
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Access to physicians, supplies, vaccines, etc..
The quality of medical care.

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Medical care

25
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Natural physical world
Your house causing asthma could be of mold.

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Environment

26
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Roles that genetic factors play in the development/outcome of disease.

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Genetics

27
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Actions that increase exposure to factors that produce disease or protect individuals from disease.

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behavior

28
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  • 1951
  • cervical cancer
  • while receiving from her cervix without her knowledge
  • cells, nickname “Helia”, contributed to significant advances in scientific and medical research
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Henrietta Lacks

29
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  • Medicaid and Medicare were developed to assist those without the benefit of private medical care
  • Antibiotics, the concept of risk factors, and control of specific communicable diseases are also addressed during this era
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Filling holes in the medical care system

30
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Focus of this era was improving the sanitary conditions for improved health

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hygiene movement

31
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often the direct cause of disease

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infection

32
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1980s
american teenager, acquired HIV through contaminated blood treatment
due to lack of understanding about HIV/AIds

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Ryan White

33
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Long throught to be an infectious disease. United states public health service established it was a nutritional deficiency easily prevented or cured with vitamin B-6 or balanced diet

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Pellagra

34
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British naval commander
demonstarted the effect of citrus fruit

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James Lind

35
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Focus is on individual behavior and disease detection in vulnerable

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Health promotion

36
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The impact of falling childhood death rates and extended life spans on the size and the age distrubution of populations

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demographic transition

37
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special locations are required to produce disease

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Geography

38
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Religious and cultural practices provided the framework for individual and community behaviors

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Health protection

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