B234 Promoting Healthy Populations Exam
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Assessing a Community - ✔️1. interview community residents
2. observation
3. data collection using instruments that quantify data
4. demographic data (census, morbidity/mortality rates)
5. windshield survey
morbidity - ✔️the rate/condition of being diseased in a community
mortality - ✔️the number of people who died within a population
windshield survey - ✔️systematic observations made from a moving vehicle that can
help you better understand either the community in general or a specific condition or
aspect of it - shows community resources such as healthcare and government services
available
Social Determinants of Health - ✔️1. availability of resources to meet daily needs, such
as educational and job opportunities, living wages, or healthful foods
2. social norms and attitudes, such as discrimination
3. exposure to crime, violence, and social disorder, such as the presence of trash
4. social support and social interactions
5. exposure to mass media and emerging technologies, such as the internet or cell
phones
6. socioeconomic conditions, such as concentrated poverty
7. quality schools
8. transportation options
9. public safety
10. residential segregation
upstream thinking concept - ✔️a movement to create a healthy society through
evidence-based, people-centered ideas; seeks to reframe public discourse around
addressing the social determinants of health in order to build a healthier society
What has the greatest influence on our health? - ✔️1. income
2. employment
3. education
4. early childhood development
5. housing
6. nutrition
upstream thinking - ✔️aims to alter the social determinants in a long-term process to
better the health of a society as a whole- looking into the future, or "upstream", when
changing current habits
, Primary Prevention - ✔️precedes disease or dysfunction
- therapeutic treatments and a process or behavior toward enhancing health (stress
reduction techniques)
- includes health promotion, such as health education about risk factors for heart
disease and specific protection- such as immunization against HepB
What is the purpose of Primary Prevention? - ✔️to decrease the vulnerability of the
individual or population to disease or dysfunction
- encourages individuals and groups to become more aware of the means of improving
health and the actions they can take
Secondary Prevention - ✔️ranges from providing screening activities to treating early
stages of a disease limiting disability by averting or delaying the consequences of an
advanced disease
What is the primary goal of secondary prevention? - ✔️to identify individuals in the
early detectable stage of the disease process
Tertiary Prevention - ✔️occurs when a disease or disability is permanent and
irreversible.
- involves minimizing the effects of the disease or disability by surveillance ad
maintenance activities aimed at preventing complications or deterioration
- focuses on rehabilitation to help people attain and retain an optimal level of functioning
What is the objective of tertiary prevention? - ✔️to return the affected individual to a
useful place in society or maximize remaining capacities, or both
antigen - ✔️foreign substances (bacteria or viruses) in the body that are capable of
causing disease; the present of antigens in the body triggers and immune response,
usually the production of antibodies
antibodies - ✔️a special protein made by the body in response to antigens (foreign
substances, e.g., bacteria or viruses)
- bind with antigens on microorganisms to protect the body against infection
Active Immunity - ✔️protection against disease through antibodies produced by the
body's own immune system.
- Develops after the introduction of a foreign antigen resulting in the formation of
antibodies or sensitized T lymphocytes (e.g. immune response to an immunization, or
obtained naturally through the immune response to exposure to infectious pathogens
such as varicella-zoster virus)
Passive Immunity - ✔️protection against disease through antibodies produced by
another human or animal
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Assessing a Community - ✔️1. interview community residents
2. observation
3. data collection using instruments that quantify data
4. demographic data (census, morbidity/mortality rates)
5. windshield survey
morbidity - ✔️the rate/condition of being diseased in a community
mortality - ✔️the number of people who died within a population
windshield survey - ✔️systematic observations made from a moving vehicle that can
help you better understand either the community in general or a specific condition or
aspect of it - shows community resources such as healthcare and government services
available
Social Determinants of Health - ✔️1. availability of resources to meet daily needs, such
as educational and job opportunities, living wages, or healthful foods
2. social norms and attitudes, such as discrimination
3. exposure to crime, violence, and social disorder, such as the presence of trash
4. social support and social interactions
5. exposure to mass media and emerging technologies, such as the internet or cell
phones
6. socioeconomic conditions, such as concentrated poverty
7. quality schools
8. transportation options
9. public safety
10. residential segregation
upstream thinking concept - ✔️a movement to create a healthy society through
evidence-based, people-centered ideas; seeks to reframe public discourse around
addressing the social determinants of health in order to build a healthier society
What has the greatest influence on our health? - ✔️1. income
2. employment
3. education
4. early childhood development
5. housing
6. nutrition
upstream thinking - ✔️aims to alter the social determinants in a long-term process to
better the health of a society as a whole- looking into the future, or "upstream", when
changing current habits
, Primary Prevention - ✔️precedes disease or dysfunction
- therapeutic treatments and a process or behavior toward enhancing health (stress
reduction techniques)
- includes health promotion, such as health education about risk factors for heart
disease and specific protection- such as immunization against HepB
What is the purpose of Primary Prevention? - ✔️to decrease the vulnerability of the
individual or population to disease or dysfunction
- encourages individuals and groups to become more aware of the means of improving
health and the actions they can take
Secondary Prevention - ✔️ranges from providing screening activities to treating early
stages of a disease limiting disability by averting or delaying the consequences of an
advanced disease
What is the primary goal of secondary prevention? - ✔️to identify individuals in the
early detectable stage of the disease process
Tertiary Prevention - ✔️occurs when a disease or disability is permanent and
irreversible.
- involves minimizing the effects of the disease or disability by surveillance ad
maintenance activities aimed at preventing complications or deterioration
- focuses on rehabilitation to help people attain and retain an optimal level of functioning
What is the objective of tertiary prevention? - ✔️to return the affected individual to a
useful place in society or maximize remaining capacities, or both
antigen - ✔️foreign substances (bacteria or viruses) in the body that are capable of
causing disease; the present of antigens in the body triggers and immune response,
usually the production of antibodies
antibodies - ✔️a special protein made by the body in response to antigens (foreign
substances, e.g., bacteria or viruses)
- bind with antigens on microorganisms to protect the body against infection
Active Immunity - ✔️protection against disease through antibodies produced by the
body's own immune system.
- Develops after the introduction of a foreign antigen resulting in the formation of
antibodies or sensitized T lymphocytes (e.g. immune response to an immunization, or
obtained naturally through the immune response to exposure to infectious pathogens
such as varicella-zoster virus)
Passive Immunity - ✔️protection against disease through antibodies produced by
another human or animal
