What are the determinants of health? Answer: the range of personal, social, economic, and environmental factors
that influence health status
What is health? Answer: a state of complete physical, mental, and social well-being and not merely the absence of
disease or infirmity
What is the ENVIRONMENT of the epidemiological triad? Answer: internal/external to a given host or agent and that
is influenced by and influences the host and agent
What is the HOST of the epidemiological triad? Answer: living species capable of being infected/affected by the
agent
What is the AGENT in the epidemiological triad? Answer: animate/inanimate factor that must be present OR lacking
for disease to develop
What is primary prevention? Answer: measures to decrease the incidence of disease
ie/ handwashing, seatbelts
What is secondary prevention? Answer: focuses on identifying the disease early
ie/ health screening or family history
What is tertiary prevention? Answer: interrupting the course of disease/reducing disability/rehabilitation
What is the chain of infection? Answer: infectious agent, reservoir, portal of exit, mode of transmission, portal of
entry, susceptible host
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What are the 4 subconcepts of population health? Answer: 1-health promotion
2-epidemiology
3-illness/injury prevention
4-chronic disease management
What is growth? Answer: -quantitative
-change in size, weight, sex characteristics etc.
What is development? Answer: qualitative (difficult to measure)
What is morbidity? Answer: occurrence of disease in a population
What is mortality? Answer: the number of deaths in a population
What is chronic disease management? Answer: equipping the client to manage their condition by building on their
strengths
What is the expanded chronic care model? Answer: -suggests strategies to influence the social determinants of
health
-improves individual/community/population health
greater focus on health promotion/prevention in the community, re-orientation of health services, developing personal
skills
What is the web of causation? Answer: shows the interrelationship between multiple factors that lead to a disease
What are the 6 domains of growth and development? Answer: 1-physical
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