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Ch. 1
Aggregate - 🧠 ANSWER ✔✔- Subgroups or subpopulations that have some
common characteristics or concerns.
,Could be directed towards a community (residents of a small town), a
population (all elders in a rural region), or *an aggregate (pregnant teens
within a school district).*
Mission of public health - 🧠 ANSWER ✔✔The mission of public health is
social justice, which entitles all people to basic necessities such as
adequate income and health protection and accepts collective burdens to
make it possible.
4 Overarching goals of Healthy People 2020. - 🧠 ANSWER ✔✔1. Attain
high quality, longer lives free of preventable disease, disability, injury, and
premature death.
2. Achieve health equity, eliminate disparities, and improve the health of all
groups
3. Create social and physical environments that promote good health for
all.
,4. Promote quality of life, healthy development and healthy behaviors
across all life stages.
Primary, Secondary, and Tertiary Prevention Levels. - 🧠 ANSWER ✔✔1.
Primary prevention
- Prevention of problems before they occur
- Health promotion and health protection
- Ex: promotion of good nutrition, provision of adequate shelter, and
encouraging regular exercise.
2. Secondary prevention
- Early detection and intervention
- Early diagnosis
- Ex: mammography, blood pressure screening, scoliosis screening, pap
smears.
3. Tertiary prevention
- Correction and prevention of deterioration of a disease state
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, - Limitation of disability and rehabilitation
- Treatment
- Ex: teaching how to perform insulin injections and disease management
to a patient with diabetes
Primary prevention level - 🧠 ANSWER ✔✔- Prevention of problems before
they occur
- Health promotion and health protection
Example of primary prevention level - 🧠 ANSWER ✔✔promotion of good
nutrition, provision of adequate shelter, and encouraging regular exercise.
Secondary prevention - 🧠 ANSWER ✔✔- Early detection and intervention
- Early diagnosis
Example of secondary prevention - 🧠 ANSWER ✔✔mammography, blood
pressure screening, scoliosis screening, pap smears.
Tertiary prevention - 🧠 ANSWER ✔✔- Correction and prevention of
deterioration of a disease state
- Limitation of disability and rehabilitation