Terms From Reading Flashcards
What is Translational Research?
Bridges basic research and clinical research and clinical research by applying scientific discoveries to the improvement of clinical outcomes
What is research?
The process of systematically and carefully investigating a topic in order to discover new insights about the world.
What is Exposure?
Personal characteristic, behavior, environmental encounter, or intervention that might change the likelihood of developing a health condition.
What is Risk Factor?
Exposure that increases an individual’s likelihood of experiencing a particular disease or outcome.
What is Protective Factor?
An exposure that reduces an individual’s likelihood of experiencing a disease or outcome
What is Nonmodifiable Risk Factor?
Risk factor for a disease that cannot be changed through health interventions (age)
What is Modifiable Risk Factor?
Risk factor for a disease that can be avoided or mitigated
What is Primary Prevention?
Health behaviors and other protective actions that help keep an adverse health event fro occurring in people who do not already have the condition (exercise, nutritional diet)
What is Secondary Prevention?
Detection of health problems in asymptomatic individuals at an early age (cancer screening)
What is Tertiary Prevention?
Interventions that reduce impairment, minimize pain, and suffering, and prevent death in people with symptomatic health problems (Surgery, Rehab)
What is Disease?
Presence of signs or symptoms of poor health
What is Disorder?
Functional impairment that may or may not be characterized by measurable structural and psychological changes
What is Mortality?
Deaths
What is Morbidity?
Non fatal illnesses
What is Testability?
The ability of a research question to be answered using experiments or other types of measurements
