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14 Cards in this Set
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The arrangement of events in time.
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Chronology
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The study of the causes, patterns prevalence,and control of disease in group of people.
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Epidemiology
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Medical professional who studies the causes, distribution, and control of disease in populations.
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Epidemiologist
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Intentional or unintentional damage to a person that resulted from acute exposure to thermal, mechanical, electrical,or chemical energy or from the absence of such essentials as heat or oxygen.
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Injury
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A real or potential hazardous situation that puts individuals at risk for sustaining an injury.
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Injury Risk
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An ongoing systemic collection, analysis, and interpretation of injury data essential to the planning, implementation, and evaluation of public health practice, closely integrated with the timely dissemination of the data to those who need to know.
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Injury Surveillance
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Injuries and deaths self-inflicted or perpetrated by another person, usually involving some type of violence.
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Intentional Injury
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Nonfatal injury rates
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Morbidity
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Death rate
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Mortality
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Keeping an injury from occurring.
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Primary injury prevention
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Preventing further injury from an event that has already occurred.
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Secondary injury prevention
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The time just after an injury has occurred when the patient and observers remain acutely aware of what has happened and may be more receptive to learning how the event or illness could have been prevented.
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Teachable moment
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Injuries and deaths not self-inflicted or perpetrated by another person (accidents).
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Unintentional injury
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A method that assumes that, on average, most people will live a productive life until the age of 65 years.
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Years of potential life lost (YPLL)
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