PUBLIC HEALTH Flashcards
science of protecting and improving the health communities through education, promotion of healthy lifestyles, and injury prevention
PUBLICH HEALTH
focuses on ways that encourage people to make healthy choices
Behavioral Science or Health Education
Identify health trends that lead to life-saving measures through the application of statistical procedures, techniques, and methodology
Biostatistics
Often utilized in tandem epidemiology
Biostatistics
Do the fieldwork to determine what causes disease or injury
Epidemiology
First International Conference on Health Promotion
Ottawa Charter for Health Promotion
Date of First International Conference on Health Promotion
Nov 21, 1986 - Ottawa
Process of enabling people to increase control over, and to improve, their health
Health Promotion
mission is to guarantee equitable, sustainable, and quality health for all Filipinos
Department of Health
Main responsibility is to license and regulate the delivery of pharmaceuticals
Bureau of Food and Drugs (BFAD)
tasked to test the safety food and cosmetics
BFAD
promoted the membership of every FIl in the healthcare program, particularly the indigent sectors of the pop
Philippine Health Insurance Corp
RA that established PhilHealth
RA 7875
launched as a blueprint reform implementation aiming for a more responsive
Fourmula One (F1)
F1 components
Health Financing
Health Regulatio
Health Service Delivery
Good Governance in Health
Yosi Kadiri started in the early 90’s during the term of
undersecretary Juan Flavier
Tobacco Regulation Act of 2003
RA 9211
first launched in 1996 which encouraged communities to seek and destroy breeding placed of mosq. every 4pm
4 o-clock Habit
Aksyon Barangay Kontra Dengue (2 Dept)
DOH + DILG
fellowship of men and women who share their experience, strength, and hope with each other that they may solve their common problem
Alcoholics Anonymous (AA)
Proteinaceous Infectious Particles
PRIONS
Animal Disease
Sheep & Goat
Scrapie
Animal Disease
Cattle
Bovine spongiform encepalopathy (BSE or Madcow disease)
CJD
Cretzfeltt Jakob Disease
GSS
Gertsmann Straussler Scheinker
FFI
Fatal Familial Insomnia
Contaminated (neuro) surgical instruments, dural & corneal grafts
Iatrogenic CJD
aka microevolutionary change
Mutations
rearrangement of large segments of DNA as a single event
Macroevolutionary change
carried by plasmids, bacteriophage or transposable genetic matl’s
Acquisition of foreign DNA
have a lipid bilayer that acts as a barrier to the penetration of antibiotics into the cell
G (-)
Creating an Inter-Agency Committee for the Formulation and Implementation of a National Plant to Combat Antimicrobial Resistance (AMR) in the PH
RA AO42
Actual growth of an organism, particularly a pathogenic one
Infection
type of inspections acquired from the hospital
Nosocomial
any diseases that spreads from one host to another either directly or indirectly
COMMUNICABLE
aka Chronic Disease
NON-COMMUNICABLE DISEASE
diseases that are easily spread from one person to another
Contagious disease
Infectious disease which can be transmitted from an animal reservoir to human host
Zoonoses
toxic inflammatory condition arising from the spread of microbes, especially bacteria, or their toxins from a focus of infection
Sepsis
growth of bacteria in the blood
Septicemia
the presence, without multiplication, of bacteria in the blood
Bacteremia
presence of toxins in the blood
Toxemia
presence of virus in the blood
Viremia
portion of virus in the blood
acellular portion
capacity of organism to produce toxin
Toxigenicity
ability of the microorganism to enter a host, grow, reproduce, & spread thourghout the body
Invasiveness
degree of pathogenicity
virulence
study where and when the diseases occur and how they are transmitted within populations
Epidemiology
number of new cases
Incidence
total number of cases both new and already existing
Prevalence
sites where pathogens are maintained as a source of infections
RESERVOIR
Humans with active diseases
Human carriers
3 Non-Living Reservoir
Soil, Water, Food
introducing the pathogen
Exposure
time an infection has begun up to the occurence
INCUBATION PERIOD
time when symptoms (and signs) appear, but full-blown illness has not ye t begun
Prodormal period
phase during which the typical signs and symptoms of disease are apparent
Invasive phase
peak of disease symptoms (signs)
Acme
symp and signs decrease
DECLINE PHASE
repair damaged tissue
CONVALASENCE PERIOD
inability of the body to full repair
SEQUELAE
where the parasite matures: support asexual reprod
DEFINITIVE HOST
ANY AGENT THAT TRANSIT A PATHOGEN
VECTOR