NS 540 - Exam 1 With Questions And 100% ALL CORRECT ANSWERS
Terms in this set (67)
group of people who are located in a particular space, have shared values and interact within a
community
social system
-people
-a location in space
4 components of community
-social interaction
-shared values
- people
3 focal areas of community nutrition -policy
-programs
effort organized by society to protect, promote and restore the people's health through the
application or science, practical skills and collective actions
public health
- infectious diseases
-chronic diseases
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enabling people to achieve their max potential for good health, focus is changing human
health promotion
behavior
primary prevention aimed at preventing disease by controlling risk factors that are related to injury or disease
secondary prevention detecting disease early through screening and other forms of risk appraisal
tertiary prevention treat and rehabilitate people who have experienced an illness or injury
US national health agenda
Healthy People - set of goals and objectives with 10-year targets
-released by the US department of health and human services each decade
- obesity continues to rise
-no change in veggie intake
How are we doing on Healthy people 2020?
-progess of physical activity
-health dispartities continue
community nutrition any nutrition program whose target is the community regardless of funding source
community-based programs conducted by a government agency
Public health nutrition
- programs, systems, policies, environments
health disparities disparities linked to discrimination
chapter 2 principles of epidemiology
study of the distribution and determinants of health-related states and events in specified
Epidemiology
populations and the application of this study to the control of health problems
distribution relationship between health problems or disease and the population in which it exists
the causes and factors that affect the risk of disease
determinants
-host factors and environmental factors
- the likelihood that people who are without a disease but are exposed to certain risk factors, will
get the disease
- biological, physical, social, behavioral
relative risk - (risk of disease or death for exposed persons )/ (risk of disease or death for unexposed
persons)
- RR > 1.0 exposed group is at greater risk of disease than unexposed
- RR < 1.0 exposed group has a smaller risk than the unexposed
incidence NS 540 - Exam 1 # of new cases occurring during a set amount of time
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