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Community Health - Answer Efforts focus on prevention & promotion of population health at
the federal, state, and local levels
Public health - Answer Founded in the ethical principle of social injustice
Entitles all people to basic necessities (housing, food, safe environment, adequate income,
healthcare)
Accepts a collective burden to make this possible
Promote physical and mental health
Prevent disease, injury, and disability
Concept of health - Answer holistic state of wellbeing including soundness of mind, body and
spirit
Concept of wellness - Answer Health plus the capacity to develop a person's potential
leading to a fulfilling and productive life
Dimensions: physical, spiritual, occupational, emotional, social, intellectual
Medicine - Answer focuses on individuals, disease, diagnosis treatment and management
tertiary care
downstream approach (recovery and rescue once health problems have already occurred)
Concept of community - Answer collection of people who interact with one another whose
common interest of characteristic form a sense of belonging
Geographic community - Answer city, town, neighborhood
Common interest community - Answer church, professional organization, people with
mastectomies
Population - Answer All people occupying an area, may not interact with one another and
may or may not share a sense of belonging
Example of population - Answer older adults, children, US adults with Alzheimers
, Healthy people 2020 goals - Answer increase lifespan of healthy life for Americans
reduce health disparities among Americans
achieve access to preventative health for all Americans
Leading health indicators - Answer Access to health services
clinical preventive services
environmental quality
injury and violence
maternal/infant/child health
oral health
mental health
reproductive/sexual health
social determinants
substance abuse
tobacco
What factors are associated with healthy communities - Answer Income
social relationships
access to and use of basic services such as water supply and sanitation
the quality of available health services
individual responsibility and the quality of the environment.
Healthy people 2030 - Answer increased focus on health equity
social determinants of health and health literacy health conditions
behavior
populations
settings/systems
social determinants of health
Healthy people 2030 leading indicators - Answer High priority objectives that address issues
of national importance
Focus on upstream measures
Address social determinants of health
Covers entire lifespan