Study guides, Class notes & Summaries

health disparities - Answer differences in health outcomes among groups Population - Answer A group of individuals that belong to the same species and live in the same area How are outcomes measured? - Answer the end result after treatment/intervention that describes a patients health status social justice theory - Answer relates advocacy, health disparities and outcomes (equality) primary intervention - Answer an intervention that occurs before the onset of the disease ...

Internal validity - Answer whether the study measures what it was supposed to measure. external validity - Answer the generalizability of the results to other populations probability - Answer the study of the lows of chance specificity - Answer the test ability to yield a negative results when the person does not have the conditions gold standard - Answer test with 100% sensitivity and specificity Positive Predictive Value (PPV) - Answer the probability of the person a...

What type of prevention is screening or exams? - Answer Secondary Prevention Tertiary Prevention - Answer What type of prevention is a cardiac or stroke rehabilitation program? What prevention attempts to minimize negative effects, prevents further disease or disorder related to complications, prevent relapse, and restore the highest physical or psychological functioning possible? - Answer Tertiary Prevention What prevention emphasizes on early disease detection by screening? - An...

Epidemiology - Answer Science of public health. Study of disease within populations & risk factors. Risk factors are genetic, environmental, social, cultural, or on some direct action by the individual. Servers to find the "why" of a disease & then to analyze the disease screening, treatment, prevention, and monitoring. population health - Answer focuses on risk, data, demographics, and outcomes Outcomes - Answer End result that follows an intervention Aggregate - Answe...

Kleinman explanatory Model - Answer Eliciting the patient's (explanatory) model gives the physician knowledge of the beliefs the patient holds about his illness, the personal and social meaning he attaches to his disorder, his expectations about what will happen to him and what the doctor will do, and his own therapeutic goals Cultural competence - Answer Cultural competence is defined as "a dynamic, fluid, continuous process whereby an individual, system or health care agency find mean...

Epidemiology - Answer The science of public health Population Health - Answer Focuses on risk, data, demographics, and outcomes Outcome - Answer The end result that follows an intervention Aggregate - Answer Defined population Community - Answer Composed of multiple aggregates Data - Answer Compiled information Prevalence - Answer Measures the existence of all current cases within a time frame Incidence - Answer Measures the appearance of new cases Surveil...

culture - Answer the practices, beliefs, values, and norms which can be learned or shared, and which guide the actions and decisions of each person in the group Cultural competence - Answer a dynamic, fluid, continuous process whereby an individual, system or health care agency find meaningful and useful care delivery strategies based on knowledge of the cultural heritage, beliefs, attitudes, and behavior of those to whom they render care the ability of the practitioner to bridge cultu...

Common risk factors - Answer unhealthy diet, physical inactivity, tobacco use Childhood risk - Answer conditions before birth and early in childhood influence health in adult life. Risk accumulation - Answer Ageing is an important marker of the accumulation of modifiable risks for chronic disease Underlying determinants - Answer a reflection of the major forces driving social, economic, and cultural change. I.e. globalization, urbanization, population ageing, and general policy ...

How does social justice and health inequities influence population health care provision? Why is this critical information for the provision of evidence-based care? - Answer More and more studies are being conducted to look at the relationship of sustained exposure to toxic stress to a variety of poor health outcomes and high-risk behaviors. These behaviors include such things as cutting, hypervigilance, promiscuity, eating disorders, poor school performance, depression, violence, suicidal ide...

Primary Prevention - Answer Refers to preventing disease before it occurs. Usually, primary prevention occurs through application of epidemiological concepts and databases to assess risk factors and then target those populations in which there can be the greatest impact on outcomes to ward off impending disease or unhealthy outcomes. Secondary Prevention - Answer Consists of screening and diagnosis of disease. Secondary prevention is one of the most cost-effective strategies to imp...