Exam 1 Review Flashcards
The capacity for a client to locate, understand, and apply healthcare information.
Health Literacy
Offer healthy cooking classes for families in the community.
Primary Prevention
Refers to a larger group whose members have a shared characteristic (such as age, gender, ethnicity, shared health issues, etc.)
Population
Understanding that self-awareness about one’s own culture is an ongoing process. Respect and understand others’ beliefs & cultural norms.
Cultural Humility
This means valuing everyone equally to address avoidable inequalities, historical and contemporary injustices, and social determinants of health.
Health Equity
An annual vision screening for a diabetic patient.
Secondary Prevention
Refers to a group of individuals living within the same geographical area.
Community
The conditions in which people are born, grow, live, work, and age.
Social Determinants of Health
Differences in health and healthcare between populations.
Health Disparity
Develop a portable immunization chart, such as a wallet card, that mobile population groups such as the homeless and migrant workers can carry with them.
Primary Prevention
The term for when individual units are brought together into a whole or a sum of those individuals.
Aggregate
Reflects the total number of cases of a disease in a population. The number of total cases of diseases / the total number of people in a population.
Prevalence
Avoidable gaps in health outcomes.
Health Inequity
Develop community-based exercise programs for people identified as having increase blood pressure or increased blood sugar.
Tertiary Prevention
Reflects the fact that groups and individuals are not all the same but differ in relation to culture, ethnicity, and race.
Diversity
A person who is unable or unwilling to return to their home country because of persecution or a well-founded fear of persecution on basis of race, religion, nationality, social group membership, or political opinion.
Asylee
Includes a range of personal, social, economic, and evironmental factors.
Determinants of Health
Develop individualized weight loss plans and counseling for individuals identified as obese on lifestyle changes is an example of:
Tertiary Prevention
Customary beliefs, social forms, and material traits of a racial, religious, or social group.
Culture
A way of depicting the total number of cases of the disease in the population that takes into account issues related to duration of the disease and the incidence of disease.
Prevalence Pot
True or False: Older adults are more vulnerable to acquiring a communicable disease and at higher risk for morbidity and mortality from it.
True
Total number of individuals who have a disease or health condition at a specific period of time. Total number of cases / Total Population.
Prevalence
A person, already residing in the US; a refugee who fled their home country due to a well-founded fear of persecution.
Asylee
This vulnerable population has increased incidence of TB, poor nutrition, and often live in poor substandard housing.
Migrant Workers
Examples include teaching good nutrition, providing information on immunizations, providing information on health hazards, and use of PPE.
Primary Prevention
Vaccines recommended for adults over 65.
Pneumonia
Influenza
COVID
Shingles
Tdap
Levels in the Public Health Intervention Wheel.
Individual Level
Community Level
Systems Level
This type of homelessness includes everyone who is living without adequate shelter.
Primary Homelessness
This vulnerable population is at higher risk of substance use disorders, mental health issues, and communicable diseases such as hepatitis and HIV.
Incarcerated
This is the restoration of health through rehabilitation strategies, including connecting clients with community resources after an injury.
Tertiary
The most common form of unintentional injury and one of the leading causes of injury and death in the older adult.
Falls
This term describes avoidable gaps in health outcomes.
Health Inequity
This type of homelessness includes those staying in a temporary form of housing (living with friends/family, or in a shelter).
Secondary Homelessness
This vulnerable population is at increased risk for communicable diseases, suicide, mental health issues, and substance use disorders.
LGBTQ+
This public health prevention strategy is focused on changing individual behaviors (promoting exercise, smoking cessation, etc.)
Behavioral Prevention
Emerging communicable diseases in adults over 50.
HIV
STIs
Hepatitis C
Social Determinants of Health
Income
Education
Access to Care
Neighborhood & Environment
Social/Community Context
Vulnerable Populations
Incarcerated
Immigrants
Migrants
Asylees
Homeless
LGBTQ+
This public health prevention strategy focuses on improving the safety of the environment (laws against drunk driving, clean air acts, etc.)
Environmental Prevention
Main reasons the elderly are at increased vulnerability to communicable diseases.
Decreased Immunity
Existence of Co-morbid Illness
Undernutrition
This is a composite measure of the interrelated concepts of income, education, and occupation.
Socioeconomic Status
This approach aims to prevent problems from happening in the first place (looking at larger community-based interventions such as removing fried food, adding affordable healthy options in the neighborhood).
Upstream Thinking
A health plan developed to eliminate health disparities, achieve health equity, and attain health literacy.
Healthy People 2030
This public health prevention strategy uses a one-one delivery method between healthcare provider and patient or family.
Clinical Prevention
