tools in community assessment

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tools in community assessment

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Demography, Vital health statistics and health indicators, Epidemiology

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Serves as bases for planning, implementing, monitoring, and
evaluation community health nursing programs and services

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VITAL STATISTICS

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Assists in finding reasons why or how population or groups is influenced by a variety of factors resulting in vulnerability to ill health

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demography

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relationship between a vital event and those person exposed to the occurrence of said event, within a given area and during a specified unit of time.

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rates

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relationship between two numerical quantities or measures of events without taking particular considerations to the time or place.

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ratios

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total living population. It must be presumed that the total population was exposed to the risk of the occurrences of the event.

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crude or general rates

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relationship is for a specific population class or group. It limits the occurrence of the event to the portion of the population definitely exposed to it.

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specific rate

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Interplay of the agent-host-environment in disease causation

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epidemiology

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cause inevitably produces the disease

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Sufficient

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disease cannot develop in its absence

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Necessary

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disease cannot develop in its absence

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Necessary

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May create a state of susceptibility to a disease agent.

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Predisposing

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May favor the development of the disease

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Enabling

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Exposure to a specific disease agent or noxious agent may be associated with the onset of a disease or state

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Precipitating

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Repeated exposure and unduly hard work may aggravate an established disease or state

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Reinforcing

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In early times, disease was thought to be brought about by wrath of Gods or due to the evil force of the demons

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Supernatural Theory

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n 463 BC, Hippocrates, who is considered to be the first epidemiologist, advised people to search the environment for the cause of disease

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Ecologic Theory

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Henle-Koch postulates: Each disease will be caused by a germ

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Germ Theory

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Agent, host and environmental factors will act and interact synergistically an act as joint independent partners in causing the disease

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Multiple Causation Theory

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An element, substance, force or a situation which may serve as a stimulus to initiate or perpetuate a disease process

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AGENT

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living organisms such as virus, bacteria, animals

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biologic agent

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substance providing nourishment, an excess or lack of which leads to disease

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nutritive agent

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forces resulting in tearing, crushing and penetration

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mechanical agent

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forces of the physical environment such as temperature, atmospheric pressure, noise, radiation, or light

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physical agent

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events/situations that lead to anxiety

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Psychological agent

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a substance, man-made, or natural with inherent capacity to destroy life or impair health

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chemical agent

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An organism, simple or complex, capable of being infected by a specific agent

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host

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number of individuals who are susceptible versus the number of individuals who are resistant

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herd immunity