Primary Care correct answers-Describes the relationship between the healthcare provider and patient
- First contact a patient has with the healthcare system
-Care across a patient's lifespan
- The verb --> the actual health delivery
primary health care correct answers-The big picture/broa...
Primary Care correct answers-Describes the relationship between the healthcare provider and patient
- First contact a patient has with the healthcare system
-Care across a patient's lifespan
- The verb --> the actual health delivery
primary health care correct answers-The big picture/broader term
- Includes primary care services and public health type functions
Healthy People correct answers-Provides national objectives for improving the health of our nation
-Updated every 10 years
What are the goals of Healthy People correct answers- help the nation understand the goals for health
- identify + decrease health disparities
IPEC correct answers-Interprofessional Education Collaborative: a group of higher education institutions
that have come together to help collaborate and improve curriculum across all of health care education
- nursing/dentistry/medicine/public health
What is epidemiology? correct answersThe study of the distribution and determinants of health-related
states or events in specified populations, and the application of this study to the control of health
problems.
What is the main goal of epidemiology? correct answersidentify groups at risk and direct prevention
efforts and early detection towards them
Identify the health related state, distribution, determinants, population, & intervention in the following
scenario:
,8.3% of DC adult population is diagnosed with DM. Low income residents and those with less education
face an increased risk of DM. correct answersHRS: DM
-Interventions that can be done to prevent the disease from even occurring
ex: immunizations, advocacy and policy (seatbelts)
Secondary Prevention correct answers-Screening
-measures that identify and treat asymptomatic persons who have already developed risk factors for
preclinical disease but are not clinically apparent
-efforts to limit the disease from progressing
- ex: labs to check for hyperlipidemia, bp checks, mammograms
tertiary prevention correct answers-treatment
-care of people with established or known diseases to try to restore them to the highest functioning and
minimizing negative effects
-ex: pt with known DM II - focus on preventing complications such as blindness, kidney disease, and foot
amputations
What is the most cost effective level of prevention correct answersPrimary prevention
, What does screening accomplish correct answersDistinguishes between who has the disease and who
does not have the disease
Sensitivity correct answers-Refers to the proportion of the population with the condition who test
positive
-How was does the test tell you who has the disease
Specificity correct answers-Refers to the proportion of the population you do the test on who test
negative
-How well does the test tell you who does not have the disease
Test with a sensitivity of 95% - the population has 100 people with the disease. The test will correctly
identify how many who have it and miss how many who have it? correct answersCorrectly identify 95
people who have the disease and miss 5 people who actually have it
Test with a specificity of 85% - the population consists of 100 healthy people. This test will correctly
identify how many people who do not have it and miss how many? correct answersCorrectly identity 85
people who do not have the disease as negative and incorrectly identify 15 people who do not have the
disease as positive
PPV correct answersrefers to the proportion of persons with a positive test who have the condition: true
positives
NPV correct answersrefers to the proportion of persons with a negative test who do not have the
condition, true negatives
The higher the prevalence the higher the ________ correct answersPPV
Prevalence correct answersThe burden of disease in a population at a given time includes old and new
cases
#of cases/ population x 1000
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