Section 1 Flashcards

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Global heath

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Field of academic study, research and applied practice that seeks to improve pop health world wide

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P in “Paces”

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Population

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A in “Paces”

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Action

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C in “Paces”

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Cooperation

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E in “Paces”

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Equity

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Health Equity

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Present when everyone has an equal opportunity to be as healthy as possible

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S in “Paces”

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Security

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WHO

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Written in 1948 defines “health” as a state of complete physical mental and social well being and not merely the absence of disease or infinity

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Determinants of health

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Biological behavioral social and enviormental political and other factor that influence the health status of individuals and populations

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Intervention

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Prevention is better than cure

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System thinking

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Identifying the underlying causes of complex problems so that sustainable solutions can be developed and implemented

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Prevention science

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When preventive health interventions are working to improve health status how successful they are in those populations how fast they can be scaled up for wide spread implementations

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Implementation science

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Scientific study of how to increase uptake of evidence based practice and policies after effective interventions have been identified

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Three level of preventions that together capture full range of health

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Primary prevention
Secondary prevention
Tertiary Prevention

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Primary Prevention

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Protective actions that help keep an adverse health event from ever occurring

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Secondary Prevention

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Detection of health problems in ASYMPTOMATIC individuals at an early stage when the conditions have not yet cause damage to the body and can be treated more easily

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Tertiary Prevention

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Interventions that reduce impairment minimize pain and suffering and restore function in people with symptomatic health problems

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Etiology

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Cause of disease or anther adverse condition

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Proximal Cause

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Most immediate of an adverse event

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Distal cause

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Social environment or other factor that is not an immediate cause but contributes to the casual pathways for an adverse event

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Multi causality

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Causal pathway in which may diff risk factors contribute to an adverse event occurring

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Exposure

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Personal characteristic behavior environmental encounter or intervention that might change the likehood of developing health condition

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Risk factor

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Exposure that increases the fact of a particular health outcome

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Primordial prevention

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General lifestyle habits and environmental conditions that prevent risk factor for adverse health events from developing

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Causation

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Relationship in which an exposure directly causes an outcome

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Casual factor

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Exposure that has been scientifically tested and shown to occur before the disease outcome and contributing directly to its occurrence

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Association

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Is a statistical relationship between two variables but test of association are not enough to prove that a relationship is or not causal

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Bradford hill criteria

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A set of conditions that’s provide support for the existence of a casual relationship between an exposure and an outcome

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non-modifiable risk factor

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Risk factor that cannon be changed through health intervention such as age or genetics

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Modifiable risk factor

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Can be avoided

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Behavioral risk factor

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Behavior that can be adopted stoped or changed in order to reduce the risk of disease

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health transition

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Shift in health status of a population that usually occurs in conjunction with socioeconomic development

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Risk transition

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Health transitions a shift from exposures like undernutrition unsafe water and indoor air pollution that increase risk of infection or disease

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population is healthier when the typical age at death is 85years rather than

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65 years

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Health disparity

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An avoidable difference in health status between population groups

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International health

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Efforts to alleviate poverty related health conditions in lower income communities

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Global health achievement

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The unseen distribution of access to health tech generated a massive intensification to health disparities during the 20th century