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,Public health - correct answers ✔✔Focuses on the health of populations
Population - correct answers ✔✔Broad term that may refer to people within a
certain geographic location, a specific nationality or race, or those with unique
characteristics, such as the homeless, those infected with HIV or marginalized
persons.
Epidemiology - correct answers ✔✔Study of how disease is distributed within
a population and the identification of the factors that determine that
distribution.
Basic Objectives of Epidemiology - correct answers ✔✔1. Identifying the cause
of a disease and important risk factors
2. Determining the burden of disease
3. Studying the natural history of a disease
4. Evaluating preventative and therapeutic models
4. Developing public policy
Etiology - correct answers ✔✔Mechanism that results in or causes disease.
Knowing this allows for development of prevention programs.
Goal of Public Health - correct answers ✔✔Identify risk factors and intervene
to reduce morbidity and mortality within a population.
, Morbidity - correct answers ✔✔Refers to symptoms or disabilities that occur
from a disease
Ex. Cancer, pain, disability, permanent SOB, mental health conditions, brain
injury, HTN
Mortality - correct answers ✔✔Refers to the death of a person
Primary means of assessing outcomes in populations - correct answers
✔✔Morbidity and mortality
Population - correct answers ✔✔Any sizable aggregate of people who meet
the membership criteria to be included in a specific person group. When
defining a population 3 metrics must be addressed.
3 Metrics of Population - correct answers ✔✔Person, place, time
Person - correct answers ✔✔Characteristics of age, gender, race, ethnicity and
occupation
Place - correct answers ✔✔Physical location of the person - country, state,
county, city or occupational location the person is in.
Time - correct answers ✔✔Certain season, calendar year, life stage, interval
time periods, fixed time periods, or person-years