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17 Cards in this Set
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the following describes what:
Action taken to prevent the development of a disease in a person who is well and does not have the disease |
Primary Prevention
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what are 2 examples of primary prevention:
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Immunization
Encourage nonsmoking behavior |
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the following describes what:
Identification of people who have already developed a disease at an early stage in disease’s natural history through screening and case finding and thus allow for early intervention |
Secondary Prevention
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what are 2 examples of secondary prevention:
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screening for Breast cancer
screening for Colon cancer |
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... is the usual occurrence of a given disease within an area
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Endemic
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... is the occurrence in a community or region of a group of illness of a similar nature this is in excess of normal expectancy
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Epidemic
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... is worldwide epidemic
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Pandemic
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... is the interval from receipt of infection to the time of onset of clinical illness
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Incubation Period
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One number divided by another where units are important and there is No NECESSARY relationship between the numerator and denominator
is called a ... |
Ratio
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There is a NECESSARY relationship between the numerator and the denominator and the denominator contains the numerator describes ...
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Proportion
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write the ratio of men to women in school
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men/women
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write the proportion of women to men in school
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women/(women + men)
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... is a special kind of ratio that always has a unit of time in the denominator
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Rate
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write the general form of a rate:
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a/b*t
where t = time |
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... is an overall measure of mortality that does not take into account anything about the population characteristics (gender, age, race, etc.)
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Crude Mortality Rate
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# of deaths (same place and same time period)/midperiod population (same place and same time period)
the above describes what: |
crude death rate
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infant is ...
neonatal is ... postneonatal is ... |
infant = children under one year of age
neonatal = up to but not including 28 days of age postneonatal = from 28 days up to but not including 1 year of age |
