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Exam 1 Review Flashcards

1
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The capacity for a client to locate, understand, and apply healthcare information.

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Health Literacy

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2
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Offer healthy cooking classes for families in the community.

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Primary Prevention

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3
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Refers to a larger group whose members have a shared characteristic (such as age, gender, ethnicity, shared health issues, etc.)

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Population

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4
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Understanding that self-awareness about one’s own culture is an ongoing process. Respect and understand others’ beliefs & cultural norms.

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Cultural Humility

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This means valuing everyone equally to address avoidable inequalities, historical and contemporary injustices, and social determinants of health.

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Health Equity

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6
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An annual vision screening for a diabetic patient.

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Secondary Prevention

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Refers to a group of individuals living within the same geographical area.

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Community

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8
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The conditions in which people are born, grow, live, work, and age.

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Social Determinants of Health

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9
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Differences in health and healthcare between populations.

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Health Disparity

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10
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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.

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Primary Prevention

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11
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The term for when individual units are brought together into a whole or a sum of those individuals.

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Aggregate

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12
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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.

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Prevalence

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13
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Avoidable gaps in health outcomes.

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Health Inequity

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14
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Develop community-based exercise programs for people identified as having increase blood pressure or increased blood sugar.

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Tertiary Prevention

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15
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Reflects the fact that groups and individuals are not all the same but differ in relation to culture, ethnicity, and race.

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Diversity

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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.

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Asylee

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17
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Includes a range of personal, social, economic, and evironmental factors.

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Determinants of Health

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18
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Develop individualized weight loss plans and counseling for individuals identified as obese on lifestyle changes is an example of:

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Tertiary Prevention

19
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Customary beliefs, social forms, and material traits of a racial, religious, or social group.

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Culture

20
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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.

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Prevalence Pot

21
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True or False: Older adults are more vulnerable to acquiring a communicable disease and at higher risk for morbidity and mortality from it.

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True

22
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Total number of individuals who have a disease or health condition at a specific period of time. Total number of cases / Total Population.

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Prevalence

23
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A person, already residing in the US; a refugee who fled their home country due to a well-founded fear of persecution.

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Asylee

24
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This vulnerable population has increased incidence of TB, poor nutrition, and often live in poor substandard housing.

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Migrant Workers

25
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Examples include teaching good nutrition, providing information on immunizations, providing information on health hazards, and use of PPE.

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Primary Prevention

26
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Vaccines recommended for adults over 65.

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Pneumonia
Influenza
COVID
Shingles
Tdap

27
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Levels in the Public Health Intervention Wheel.

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Individual Level
Community Level
Systems Level

28
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This type of homelessness includes everyone who is living without adequate shelter.

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Primary Homelessness

29
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This vulnerable population is at higher risk of substance use disorders, mental health issues, and communicable diseases such as hepatitis and HIV.

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Incarcerated

30
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This is the restoration of health through rehabilitation strategies, including connecting clients with community resources after an injury.

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Tertiary

31
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The most common form of unintentional injury and one of the leading causes of injury and death in the older adult.

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Falls

32
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This term describes avoidable gaps in health outcomes.

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Health Inequity

33
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This type of homelessness includes those staying in a temporary form of housing (living with friends/family, or in a shelter).

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Secondary Homelessness

34
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This vulnerable population is at increased risk for communicable diseases, suicide, mental health issues, and substance use disorders.

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LGBTQ+

35
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This public health prevention strategy is focused on changing individual behaviors (promoting exercise, smoking cessation, etc.)

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Behavioral Prevention

36
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Emerging communicable diseases in adults over 50.

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HIV
STIs
Hepatitis C

37
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Social Determinants of Health

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Income
Education
Access to Care
Neighborhood & Environment
Social/Community Context

38
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Vulnerable Populations

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Incarcerated
Immigrants
Migrants
Asylees
Homeless
LGBTQ+

39
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This public health prevention strategy focuses on improving the safety of the environment (laws against drunk driving, clean air acts, etc.)

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Environmental Prevention

40
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Main reasons the elderly are at increased vulnerability to communicable diseases.

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Decreased Immunity
Existence of Co-morbid Illness
Undernutrition

41
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This is a composite measure of the interrelated concepts of income, education, and occupation.

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Socioeconomic Status

42
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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).

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Upstream Thinking

43
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A health plan developed to eliminate health disparities, achieve health equity, and attain health literacy.

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Healthy People 2030

44
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This public health prevention strategy uses a one-one delivery method between healthcare provider and patient or family.

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Clinical Prevention

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