PUBLIC HEALTH KEY TERMS

Question 1

prevention, treatment, and management of illness and preservation of mental and physical well-being through services offered by medical and allied health professions; also known as health care.

Answer 1

CLINICAL CARE

Question 2

factor that contributes to the generation of a trait.

Answer 2

DETERMINANT

Question 3

occurrence in a COMMUNITY OR REGION of cases of an illness, SPECIFIC health-related behavior, or other health-related event clearly IN EXCESS OF NORMAL EXPECTANCY

Answer 3

EPIDEMIC

Question 4

usually refers to a LARGER GEOGRAPHIC DISTRIBUTION of illness or health-related events.

Answer 4

EPIDEMIC

Question 5

RESULT of a medical condition that directly affects the length or quality of a person’s life

Answer 5

HEALTH OUTCOME

Question 6

action or ministration that produces an effect or is INTENDED TO ALTER the course of a pathologic process.

Answer 6

INTERVENTION

Question 7

denoting a disease affecting or attacking the population of an extensive region, COUNTRY, or CONTINENT

Answer 7

PANDEMIC

Question 8

approach to health that aims to IMPORVE THE HEALTH of an ENTIRE POPULATION

Answer 8

POPULATION HEALTH

Question 9

action so as to avoid, forestall, or circumvent a happening, conclusion, or phenomenon (e.g., disease)

Answer 9

PREVENTION