CPH LAB M5 - 8 FINALS
preventive medicine - correct answer ✔✔specialist works with large population groups as well as with
individual patients to promote health and understand the risk of disease, injury, disability and death
sanitary revolution - correct answer ✔✔produce the greatest transformation in the pattern of disease
that the world had known since nomadic hunter-gatherers settled in permanent villages, and ultimately
developed modern urban industrial communities
prevention - correct answer ✔✔Actions aimed at eradicating, eliminating, or minimizing the impact of
disease and disability. The concept of prevention is best defined in the context of levels, traditionally
called primary, secondary, and tertiary prevention
primordial prevention - correct answer ✔✔Consists of actions and measures that inhibit the emergence
of risk factors in the form of environmental, economic, social, and behavioral conditions and cultural
patterns of living
primary prevention - correct answer ✔✔defined as the action taken prior to the onset of disease, which
removes the possibility that the disease will ever occur
population strategy - correct answer ✔✔is directed at the whole population irrespective of individual
risk levels
high-risk strategy - correct answer ✔✔-aims to bring preventive care to individuals at special risk
-requires the detection of individuals at high risk by the optimum use of clinical methods
secondary prevention - correct answer ✔✔action which halts the progress of a disease at its incipient
stage and prevents complications
secondary prevention - correct answer ✔✔attempts to arrest the disease process, restore health by
seeking out unrecognized disease and treating it before irreversible pathological changes take place, and
reverse communicability of infectious diseases
, secondary prevention - correct answer ✔✔it protects others from in the community from acquiring the
infection and thus provide at once secondary prevention for the infected ones and primary prevention
for their potential contacts
tertiary prevention - correct answer ✔✔it is used when the disease process has advanced beyond its
early stages
tertiary prevention - correct answer ✔✔all the measures available to reduce or limit impairments and
disabilities, and to promote the patients' adjustment to irremediable conditions
tertiary prevention - correct answer ✔✔intervention that should be accomplished in the stage of tertiary
prevention are disability limitation, and rehabilitation
impairment - correct answer ✔✔any loss or abnormality of psychological, physiological, or anatomical
structure or function
disability - correct answer ✔✔any restriction or lack of ability to perform an activity in the manner or
within the range considered normal for the human being
handicap - correct answer ✔✔a disadvantage for a given individual, resulting from an impairment or
disability, that limits or prevents the fulfillment of a role in the community that is normal (depending on
age, sex, and social and cultural factors) for that individual
rehabilitation - correct answer ✔✔the combined and coordinated use of medical, social, educational,
and vocational measures for training and retraining the individual to the highest possible level of
functional ability
control - correct answer ✔✔- the incidence of disease
- the duration of disease and consequently the risk of transmission
- the effects of disease, including both the physical and psychological complications
- the financial burden to the community
preventive medicine - correct answer ✔✔specialist works with large population groups as well as with
individual patients to promote health and understand the risk of disease, injury, disability and death
sanitary revolution - correct answer ✔✔produce the greatest transformation in the pattern of disease
that the world had known since nomadic hunter-gatherers settled in permanent villages, and ultimately
developed modern urban industrial communities
prevention - correct answer ✔✔Actions aimed at eradicating, eliminating, or minimizing the impact of
disease and disability. The concept of prevention is best defined in the context of levels, traditionally
called primary, secondary, and tertiary prevention
primordial prevention - correct answer ✔✔Consists of actions and measures that inhibit the emergence
of risk factors in the form of environmental, economic, social, and behavioral conditions and cultural
patterns of living
primary prevention - correct answer ✔✔defined as the action taken prior to the onset of disease, which
removes the possibility that the disease will ever occur
population strategy - correct answer ✔✔is directed at the whole population irrespective of individual
risk levels
high-risk strategy - correct answer ✔✔-aims to bring preventive care to individuals at special risk
-requires the detection of individuals at high risk by the optimum use of clinical methods
secondary prevention - correct answer ✔✔action which halts the progress of a disease at its incipient
stage and prevents complications
secondary prevention - correct answer ✔✔attempts to arrest the disease process, restore health by
seeking out unrecognized disease and treating it before irreversible pathological changes take place, and
reverse communicability of infectious diseases
, secondary prevention - correct answer ✔✔it protects others from in the community from acquiring the
infection and thus provide at once secondary prevention for the infected ones and primary prevention
for their potential contacts
tertiary prevention - correct answer ✔✔it is used when the disease process has advanced beyond its
early stages
tertiary prevention - correct answer ✔✔all the measures available to reduce or limit impairments and
disabilities, and to promote the patients' adjustment to irremediable conditions
tertiary prevention - correct answer ✔✔intervention that should be accomplished in the stage of tertiary
prevention are disability limitation, and rehabilitation
impairment - correct answer ✔✔any loss or abnormality of psychological, physiological, or anatomical
structure or function
disability - correct answer ✔✔any restriction or lack of ability to perform an activity in the manner or
within the range considered normal for the human being
handicap - correct answer ✔✔a disadvantage for a given individual, resulting from an impairment or
disability, that limits or prevents the fulfillment of a role in the community that is normal (depending on
age, sex, and social and cultural factors) for that individual
rehabilitation - correct answer ✔✔the combined and coordinated use of medical, social, educational,
and vocational measures for training and retraining the individual to the highest possible level of
functional ability
control - correct answer ✔✔- the incidence of disease
- the duration of disease and consequently the risk of transmission
- the effects of disease, including both the physical and psychological complications
- the financial burden to the community
