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15 Cards in this Set
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People who share certain interests, beliefs, or values.
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Community
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Characteristics of a community?
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A group of people, located in a particular space, have shared values, interact within a social system
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Strives to improve health, nutrition, and well being of individuals and groups w/in communities
Uses programs to seek behavior changes to improve nutritional status and health |
Community Nutrition
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What does community nutrition focus on?
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People, Policy, Programs
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Focuses on protecting, promoting and resotring people's health through applications of science, practical skills, and collective actions
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Public Health
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What is the goal of public health nutrition?
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Goal is to attain the highest level of physical mental and social well being and longevity given available knowledge and resources
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A state of complete physical, mental, and social well being; not merely the absence of disease.
-A feeling of well being. -Physical, mental, and spiritual capacity to live life to the fullest capacity |
Healthy
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Determinants of "Good Health" include?
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Biology and genetics, lifestyle, living working and social conditions, community conditions, background conditions
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Health Promotion:
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focuses on changing human behavior, encouraging people to eat healthful diets, be active, get regular rest, etc
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Preventing disease by controlling risk factors?
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Primary Prevention
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Detecting disease early through screening and other forms of risk appraisal
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Secondary Prevention
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Treat and rehabilitate people with illness or injury
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Tertiary Prevention
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A course of action chosen by public authorities to address a given problem
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Policy
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Focuses on protecting and promoting people's health through the actions of society.
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Policy
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Healthy People:
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A set of goals and objectives with 10 yr targets designed to guide national health promotion and disease prevention efforts to improve the health of all people in the United States.
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