Public Health and Optometry Flashcards
What are the four prevention tiers?
primordial, primary, secondary, and tertiary prevention
What is primordial prevention?
improve health by targeting behaviors and social and physical environments; preventing primary risk factors
What is primary prevention?
support, educate, and promote healthy eye and vision behaviors; prevent disease from happening
What is secondary prevention?
facilitate presymptomatic identification of eye diseases and treatments; screening for existing diseases before symptoms
What is tertiary prevention?
preserve and enhance the health and function of individuals with vision impairment; treatment of current condition or rehabilitation
What prevention state did optometry start at and where is it heading?
Starts with tertiary, not currently paid for primary, expanding to primordial
What are the three ways to think about health?
medical tradition, environment, and social
What is medical traditional health?
focused on the individual
What is environmental health?
external factors affecting health
What is social health?
nature of interactions b/w individuals and the environment
What is the WHO definition of health?
a state of complete physical, mental, and social well-being and not merely the absence of disease or infirmity
What makes us healthy?
50% healthy behavior, 20% environment, 20% genetics, 10% access to care
What are health inequalities?
differences between populations that are inherited: race, gender, age, and geographic region
What are health inequities?
societal, economic, and cultural conditions in which populations reside that influence the health outcomes of those populations: income, education, industry marketing exposure, access to safe recreation, food insevuirty
Which can you change: inequalities or inequities?
inequities
