The Importance of Data in Health Promotion

Question 1

Program Planning 7 Steps

Answer 1

1. Stakeholders
2. Needs Assessment
3. Literature Review
4. Goals and Objectives
5. Implementation
6. Evaluation
7. Results

Question 2

Importance of Epidemiology

Answer 2

Critical purpose of Epidemiology is to discover what people do that cause disease, or injuries, then apply this knowledge to the development of prevention and health promotion programs

Question 3

Epidemiology

Answer 3

Study of determinants, distribution, and frequency of disease

Question 4

Tools of Epidemiology

Answer 4

Chain of infection and Hypothesis testing using statistical methods

Question 5

Chain of infection

Answer 5

– a concept that explains how disease is transmitted from an infected individual to a person that is not infected

Question 6

Hypothesis testing using statistical methods

Answer 6

hypothesis about the causation of any disease or injury

Question 7

Descriptive epidemiology

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• uses available data to determine how rates of health “events” differ by time, place and person
• Can then start looking for clues regarding cause

Question 8

Analytical epidemiology

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• Used in process of identifying the potential cause of an “event” and testing the developing hypothesis
• Better able to identify causal high risk behaviors by using a comparison or control group

Question 9

Cohort study

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• follow a group of healthy people over time to determine the occurrence of health events
• Look at exposures to potential causal agents/behaviors

Question 10

Case- control study

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• Compare illness and wellness among persons exposed and not exposed to cause being studied
• Determine relative risk by comparing the rate of new disease cases (incidence) of those exposed to a the causative behavior or causative agent and the incidence rate among those not exposed

Question 11

Behavioral Risk Factor Surveillance System (BRFSS)

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concentrates on gathering data about high-risk behaviors

Question 12

High risk health behaviors

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• Begin early in life
• Are learned behaviors
• Are reinforced through physiology and through social processes
• Are responsible for causing many chronic diseases

Question 13

Behavioral Epidemiology Challenge

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understanding why people behave in unhealthy ways and then changing the causes of unhealthy behaviors

Question 14

Empirical Data

Answer 14

information acquired by observation or experimentation.

Question 15

Anecdotal Data

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is based on hearsay rather than hard facts.

Question 16

Three Assumptions about Health-related Data

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1. In the absence of relevant data about the health of the target population, we cannot set priorities, plan programs with precision, or determine how or whether those programs work.
2. We must know what questions to ask before, during and even after the data-collection process.
3. People are an essential source of information, and their opinions and views should be actively sought out, respected and integrated into the decision-making process.

Question 17

Where does majority of public health funding come from?

Answer 17

the federal government