Public Health Chap. 1

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Assessment

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Each public health agency should regularly and systematically collect,assemble,analyze and make available information on the health of the community,including statistics on health status,community health needs,and epidemiologic and other studeies of health problems.

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Assurance

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Each public agencyshould assure its constituents that services necessary to achieve agreed upongoals are provided,either by encouraging actions by other entities,by requiring such action through regulation,or by pproviding services directly.

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Biostatistics

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The application of statistics to biological and medical problems. This is one of the basic sciences of public health,applied in the analysis of vital and health statistics and in the use of statistical tests for associations,correlation,significance levels,and so on,in epidemiology,toxicology,environmental health sciences and all other public health sciences.

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Community Medicine

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The study of health and disease in a communitythat is considered an entity and the provision and evaluation of the health services of that community.

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Disease Prevention

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The deferral or elimination of specific illnesses and conditions by one or more interventions of proven efficiency.