PBH 101 Chapter 1
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1. Intervention: The full range of strategies designed to protect health and prevent disease, disability, and death
2. High-risk approach: Focuses on those with the highest probability of developing disease and aims to bring
their risk close to the levels experienced by the rest of the population
3. Risk factor: A characteristic of individuals or an exposure that increases the probability of developing a disease.
It does not imply that a contributory cause has been established
4. Improving-the-average approach: Focuses on the entire population and aims to reduce the risk for
everyone
5. Health care: System for delivering one-on-one individual health services, including those aimed at prevention,
cure, palliation, and rehabilitation
6. Traditional public health: Population based interventions directed at health promotion and disease
prevention
7. Social interventions: Aimed at achieving other non-health goals that can have secondary impacts in health
8. Contributory causes: Immediate causes of disease
9. Determinants: Underlying factors that ultimately bring about disease; "causes of causes"
10. Determinants of disease (acronym): BIG GEMS; Behavior, infection, genetics, geography, envi-
ronment, medical care, socioeconomic-cultural
11. Built environment: Physical environment built for use by humans
12. Demographic transition: The impact of falling childhood death rates and extended life spans on the
size and the age distribution of populations
13. Epidemiological/public health transition: Implies that as a social and economic development
occurs, different types of diseases become prominent
14. Nutritional transition: Implies that countries frequently move from poorly balanced diets often deficient
in nutrients, proteins, and calories to a diet of highly processed food, including fats, sugars, and salts.
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1. Intervention: The full range of strategies designed to protect health and prevent disease, disability, and death
2. High-risk approach: Focuses on those with the highest probability of developing disease and aims to bring
their risk close to the levels experienced by the rest of the population
3. Risk factor: A characteristic of individuals or an exposure that increases the probability of developing a disease.
It does not imply that a contributory cause has been established
4. Improving-the-average approach: Focuses on the entire population and aims to reduce the risk for
everyone
5. Health care: System for delivering one-on-one individual health services, including those aimed at prevention,
cure, palliation, and rehabilitation
6. Traditional public health: Population based interventions directed at health promotion and disease
prevention
7. Social interventions: Aimed at achieving other non-health goals that can have secondary impacts in health
8. Contributory causes: Immediate causes of disease
9. Determinants: Underlying factors that ultimately bring about disease; "causes of causes"
10. Determinants of disease (acronym): BIG GEMS; Behavior, infection, genetics, geography, envi-
ronment, medical care, socioeconomic-cultural
11. Built environment: Physical environment built for use by humans
12. Demographic transition: The impact of falling childhood death rates and extended life spans on the
size and the age distribution of populations
13. Epidemiological/public health transition: Implies that as a social and economic development
occurs, different types of diseases become prominent
14. Nutritional transition: Implies that countries frequently move from poorly balanced diets often deficient
in nutrients, proteins, and calories to a diet of highly processed food, including fats, sugars, and salts.
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