Health disparities - Correct Answer-differences in health outcomes among groups
Population - Correct Answer-A group of individuals that belong to the same species and live in the same area
How are outcomes measured? - Correct Answer-the end result after treatment/intervention that describes a
patients health status
Social justice theory - Correct Answer-relates advocacy, health disparities and outcomes (equality)
Primary intervention - Correct Answer-an intervention that occurs before the onset of the disease
Secondary intervention - Correct Answer-after disease but before symptoms
*screening*
Health inequity - Correct Answer-a difference or disparity in health outcomes that is systematic, avoidable,
and unjust
Social Justice - Correct Answer-the defense of human dignity by ensuring that essential human needs are met
and that essential human rights are protected for all people
Campaign for Action - Correct Answer-limit health disparities across the nation
Sources of epidemiological data - Correct Answer-HP 2020, Quick Health Data Online System, NCHS,
AAMC, Health Equity
Screening and Diagnostic Tests - Correct Answer-** population specific
** should be tested and have available statistics that speak to their specificity, sensitivity, and + predictive
value
Speceficity - Correct Answer-Patients DO NOT have disease and were given negative test results
Sensitivity - Correct Answer-Patients who DO have disease AND are given positive test results
Sensitive to the truth
+ predictive value - Correct Answer-Probability that a person with a + result truly does have the disease
Descriptive epidemiology - Correct Answer-collection and analysis of data: what, who, where, when,
why/how (causes, risk factors, modes of transportation)
Causation - Correct Answer-A cause and effect relationship in which one variable controls the changes in
another variable.
Tertiary intervention - Correct Answer-rehabilitation to the highest level of functioning
(prevents disease from getting worse)
Provider determining to use a screening test? - Correct Answer-used to reduce morbidity/mortality by