Exam 2 Flashcards
Farm bill comes up for renewal
Every 5 years
Majority of mandatory spending and percent
Social security and Medicare - 65%
Largest part of the farm bill
SNAP
Effect of farm bill on nutrition
Creates budget and reauthorizes food programs (SNAP, WIC, TEFAP) and when comes up to pass allows Congress to tinker with them
Commodities def
Wheat corn rice cotton sugar. Crops that if you combine them you cannot pick them apart
Specialty def
Fruits, vegetables, nuts. Foods that theoretically would look different if combined.
Crop subsidies
Payment to farmers to grow commodity crops or sometimes not to grow them
Crop insurance
Farmers go to insurance company and can get insurance that will pay them a certain price for their crop. If crop sells for less the farmers get the guaranteed price. If it sells for more the farmers get the profits. For any kind of crop but only commodities have the price history acceptable to the insurance companies. Government pays 72% of the cost.
Vital statistics
Statistics about life events - birth, death and marriage
Walkabout
When you are doing a CNA you go around the neighborhood and talk to the people there about issues
GIS
Geographic information system - information from different electronic public info sources that are put together on a map
Things that affect what we eat and nutrition status
Accessibility, price, storage, preparation, culture, age, education level, allergies/health issues, religion, knowledge, social environment, vanity, lifestyle factors, individual factors, environment, living/working conditions
Self efficacy
Your belief that you can make a change that will work
Cognitions
Knowledge and awareness people have of their environment and what they choose to do with the knowledge/awareness
Attitudes
Your negative or positive feelings about something
Survey
Systematic study of a cross-section of individuals
3 components of health risk appraisals
1) questionnaire
2) scoring device
3) educational piece
Screening
What is done in public health - screen and refer instead of diagnose and treat
Focus group
Typically 5-12 people with a leader who should be trained
ABCDs of nutrition assessment
Anthropometrics - weight, height, waist circ
Biomedical - labs
Clinical - subjective judgment
Dietary - 24 hr recall, FFQ, food records, diet hist
Health halo bias
Once a food is categorized as “healthy” you eat more of it
Focus group break point to get people to come
$50
Sensitivity
No false negatives - want to find everyone that has the condition - ok with some false positives
In public health want tests with really good sensitivity then send them to a doctor to weed out false positives
Tests with high sensitivity tend to be inexpensive
Specificity
Rule out false positives
Tests with high specificity tend to be very expensive