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Public Health |
Concerned with optimizing the health status of populations |
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What are the public health strategies utilized? |
-Controlling the environment -Health and promotion -Improving medical care -Promoting health enhancing behaviors |
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What are the 3 principles that must be considered before any action can be taken to alleviate health problems? |
1) Assess specific problems specific problems that are affecting community health 2) Strategic planning and intervention must be based on evidence (scientific knowledge) and available resources. 3)Current level of political and social commitment must be determined. |
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Incidence |
refers to the number of new cases of disease, injury, or disability within a specified time frame, typically a year. |
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Prevalence |
The total number of cases of disease, injury, or disability in a community, city, state, or nation existing at one point in time. |
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What are the 3 levels of prevention? |
Primary Prevention Focuses on healthy indivduals with potential of risk. Maintain current health status; reduce susceptibility Secondary Prevention Focus is on detection and treatment of early stages of disease Tertiary Prevention Measures used to limit disability and other complications in advanced levels of disease |
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Health Promotion |
Any planned combination of educational, political, regulatory, environmental, and organizational supports for actions and conditions of living conducive to the health of individuals, groups, or communities. |
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Community |
Noninstitutional aggregations of people linked together for common goals of other purposes. |
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Community Health |
The physical, emotional, social, and spiritual well-being of group of people who are linked together in some way, possibly through geographical proximity or shared interests. |
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How are groups of people linked together? |
Groups of people are linked together by: 1) Cultural or religious values 2) Diagnostic group or health condition 3) Proximity 4) Shared interests |
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Community Health Intervention |
Any combination of educational, social, and environmental supports for behavior conducive to health. |
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What is the vision for Healthy People 2020? |
A society in which all people will live long healthy lives |
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What are the goals outlined in Healthy People 2020? |
1) Attain high quality of life 2) Achieve health equity 3) Create environments that promote good health 4) Promote quality of life, healthy development, and healthy behaviors, across the life span |
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Determinants of health |
Range of factors that influence health status |
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What are the five broad categories for health determinants? |
1) Biology and genetics 2) Health services 3) Individual behavior 4) Policy making 5) Social and environmental factors |
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Heatlh disparities |
Closely linked with social, economic, and/or environmental disadvantage. |
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The goals, topic areas, and measures of progress included in Healthy People 2020 provide and action-oriented plan for all phases of Occupational Therapy Process |
Evaluation Intervention Engagement/Participation Outcomes Measurement |
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What is Occupational Therapy based on? |
The premise that participation in meaningful occupations can improve occupational performance and overall health and well-being. |
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Preventive Occupation |
The application of occupational science in the prevention of disease and disability and the promotion of health and well-being of individuals and communities through meaningful engagement in occupations. |
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What are occupational risk factors to health? |
1) Occupational imbalance 2) Occupational alienation 3) Occupational deprivation |
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What is preventative Occupation? |
The application of occupational science and the promotion of disease and disablity and the promotion of health and well-being of individuals and communities through meaningful engagment in occupations. |
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What is an excellent example of a research study that demonstrates the power of preventative occupation? |
The "Well Elderly Study" (JAMA 1997) Dr. Florence Clark and colleagues at the University of Southern California Randomized controlled trial 361 men and women aged 60 and older, living independently in the community Designed to evaluate the effectiveness of a preventative occupational therapy program |
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What are the 3 major roles in health promotion that occupational therapy practitioners may assume? |
1)Promoting healthy lifestyles for all clients and their families regardless of disability status 2)Incorporating occupation in existing health promotion efforts developed by experts in areas such as health education, nutrition, and exercise. 3)Develop occupation-based health promotion programs at the individual, group, community, and population levels.k |
