Illness and Injury Prevention Flashcards
1
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Primary Injury Prevention
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Defined as keeping an injury from ever occurring
2
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Secondary and Tertiary prevention
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Defined as care and rehabilitation activities (respectively) that are preventing further problems from an event that has already occurred.
3
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Teachable moment
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Defined as the time after an injury had occurred when the patient and observers remain acutely aware of what has happened and may be more receptive to teaching about how the event or illness could be prevented.
4
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Years of productive life
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Defined as the calculation by subtracting age of death from 65
