2) achieve health equity, eliminate disparities, improve health of all groups
3) create social and physical environments that promote good health.
4) promote quality of life, healthy development, and health
Determinants of Care - Range of personal, social, economic, and environmental factors that influence
health status
Risk Analysis - Characterization of the potential adverse health effects of human exposures to
environmental hazards
health disparities - Differences of health statuses between various populations.
Sensitivity - Measures the proportion of actual positives that are correctly identified as such (e.g., % of
sick people who are correctly identified as having the condition)
Specificity - True negative rate
Measures actual negatives that are correctly identified as such (e.g., % of healthy people who are
correctly ID's as not having the condition)
Positive Predictive Value (PPV) - Probability that subjects with a positive screening test truly have the
disease
Epidemiological triangle - Triad with an external agent, host, and an environment that cause the disease.
Environmental factors and genetics play a role.
Disease transmitted directly or indirectly.
Outright symptoms or subclinical disease.
Confounding Variable - Extra variable not accounted for and can ruin the experiment.
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