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Rehabilitation after an injury or illness that helps to prevent further problems from occuring
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Tertiary prevention
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A real or potentially hazardous situation that puts people in danger of sustaining injury
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Injury risk
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Keeping an injury from ever occuring
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Primary prevention
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Interntional or unintentional damage to a person resulting from acute exposure to thermal, mechanical, electrical, or chemical energy or from the absence of such essentials as heat and oxygen
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Injury
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These occur shortly after an injury when the patient and observers remain acutely aware of what has happened and may be more receptive to teaching about how similar injury or illness could be prevented in the future
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Teachable moments
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The ongoing systematic collection, analysis, and interpretation of injury data essential to the planning, implementation, and evaluation of public health practice
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Injury surveillance program
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A calculation made by subtracting the age of death from 65
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Years of productive life
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Medical care after an injury or illness that helps to prevent further problems from occuring
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Secondary prevention
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The study of factors that influence the frequency, distribution, and causes of injury, disease, and other health related events in a population
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Epidemiology
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