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Epidemiology |
The study of factors that influence the frequency, distribution, and causes of injury, disease, and other health related in a population |
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injury |
intentional or unintentional damage to a person resulting from acute exposure to thermal, mechanical , electrical, or chemical energy or the absence of such essentials as heat and oxygen |
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injury risk |
a hazardous or potentially hazardous situation that puts people in danger of sustaining injuries |
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injury surveillance program |
the ongoing systematic collection, analysis, and interpretation of injury data essential to the planning, implementation, and evaluation of public health practice |
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primary prevention |
keeping an injury from ever happening |
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public health |
the science and practice of protecting and improving the health of a community through the use of preventive medicine, health education, control of communicable diseases, application of sanitary methods, and monitoring of environmental hazards |
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Secondary Prevention |
medical care after an injury or injury that helps prevent further problems from occurring |
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Tertiary prevention |
rehabilitation after an injury or illness that helps prevent further problems from occurring |
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Years of Productive Life |
a calculation made by subtracting the age of death from 65 |
