Terminology Flashcards
Assessment
1/3 core functions of PH. Regular and systematic collection, assembly, analysis, and reporting of information important to public health
Assurance
1/3 core function of PH. Providing services that are needed to achieve public health goals.
Communicable Diseases(Infectious/Contagious)
Diseases that are spread from one person to another or from an animal to a person. They can affect large populations, causing sickness and death.
Core Functions
Assessment, policy development, and assurance
Determinants of Health
Social and economic environment, physical environment, and individuals’ characteristics and behaviors.
Essential Services
Monitor health, diagnose and investigate, inform, educate, empower, mobilize community partnerships, develop policies, enforce laws, provide care, ensure competent workforce, evaluate
Health Disparities
Health differences that are closely linked with social, economic, and/or environmental disadvantages
Health Status Indicators
Measures of important health determinants that allow researchers to assess how healthy populations are.
Ex. Leading causes of death, measures of birth, environmental health
Morbidity
Diseased condition or state within a person or population
Mortality
End of life
Policy Development
Involves creation of comprehensive public policies that promote use of knowledge in decision making
Population
Distinct groupings within a society that are analyzed with health status indicators to determine health disparities that may exist within society.
Public Health
A multidisciplinary field that promotes the welfare of the individual and the community.
Risk Factors
Underlying issues associated with non-communicable diseases that are common and preventable
Risk Factor Behaviors
Alcohol Abuse
Tobacco Use
Physical Inactivity
Unhealthy Diet
