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30 Cards in this Set
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What is the goal of disease prevention and health promotion?
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To change the health behavior of individuals, groups, or communities which are conductive to leading healthy lives
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What are the driving forces of disease prevention and health promotion? (2)
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altruism and concerns of cost
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What are walkarounds?
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A method of figuring out problems within a community by simply walking around and talking to people
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Give some exampels of disease prevention and health promotion
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Mobile mammograms
vaccinations employer-based gym memberships and nutrition classes pap smears health fairs |
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The type of prevention that is directed towards preventing the initial occurence. Give an example.
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Primary prevention
Vaccines |
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The type of prevention that is directed towards retarding/arresting existing disease and its effects through early detection. Give an example
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secondary prevention
cholesterol screening |
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what are the goals of health promotion?
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enhance awareness
change behavior create environments that support good health practices |
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Activities undertaken by individuals for the purpose of maintaining or enhancing their health, preventing health problems, or achieveing a positive body image
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Health behavior
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what are the three types of health behavior? Explain each.
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Preventative health behavior: engaging in an acitivity for the purpose of preventing or detecting illness in an ASYMPTOMATIC state.
Illness Behavior: engaging in activity to first define the state of health and then to discover a suitable remedy Sick-role behavior: engaging in activities for the purpose of getting well. |
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Going to the doctor because you feel sick woudl be which type of health behavior?
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Illness behavior: engaging in activity to first define the state of health and then to discover a suitable remedy
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Taking medicine would be an example of what type of health behavior?
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sick-role behavior
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Avoiding trans fat would be which type of health behavior?
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Preventative health behavior
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a person's opinions of the chances of getting a certain condition
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perceived susceptability
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a person's opinion of how serious his or her condition is
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perceived severity
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a person's opinion of the effectiveness of some advised action to reduce the risk or seriuosness of the impact
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perceived benefits
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a person's opinion of the concrete and psychological costs of this advised action
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perceived barriers
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events (internal or external) which can activate a person's
"readiness to act" and stimulate an observable behavior |
Cues to action
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The goal of _______________ is to provide accurate, current, valid, appropriate, intelligible, and free of bias information to the public.
What might be a barrier to this? |
consumer health information
the patient's individual level of comfort accessing ifnormation (health literacy) |
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Which group of persons are in the greatest need of consumer health education?
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lower income levels and lower education levels
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What is the BEST aproach to the relay of consumer health education to the public?
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Multidimensional
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True or false? Human interest stories are more powerful than statistics and facts when relaying consumer health information.
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True
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The degree to which individuals hav ethe capacity to obtain, process and understans basic health information and services needed to make appropriate health decisions.
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Health literacy (defined by Healthy Peopl 2010)
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What is the major problem with usign celebrities as a means to promote health education?
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Motivation is suspect (is it a disease awareness campaign or campaign funded by pharmaceutical company- often hard to distinguish)
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How is the gov't affecting disease prevntion and health promotion?
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The FIve Star Quality Rating System for Medicare Advantage Plans
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What is The FIve Star Quality Rating System for Medicare Advantage Plans
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run by the CMS
put inplace as part of an effort to help educate consumers on quality and make quality data more transparent. Ties federal reimbursement ratres to performance. |
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the distribution of disease and factors associated with disease in humans
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Epidemiology
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The science concerned with the benefit and risk of drugs used in populations and the analysis of the outcomes of drug therapies
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Pharmacoepidemiology
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the number of new cases over a certain time
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incidence
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number of new health outcomes divided by population at risk over the given time period ( #of NEW cases in a time pd / total population at risk during that time period)
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Cumulative incidence
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a measure of the burden of disease
existing cases divided by the total population at a point in time (# of cases / total population at a set point in time) |
Prevalence
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