Discuss health, community health and population health - ANSWERHealth:
state of complete physical, mental, social wellbeing and not merely the absence of disease or infirmity
Community health:
- feeling connected to a community can be a multidimensional conceptualization of health
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Discuss health, community health and population health - ANSWERHealth: state of complete physical, mental, social wellbeing and not merely the absence of disease or infirmity
Community health: - feeling connected to a community can be a multidimensional conceptualization of health
Population health: - refers to health outcomes of population measured by determinants of health and health-status indicators
- can be improved & decrease health inequities by looking and acting on DofH
1. Health Promotion
2. Illness and Injury Prevention
3. Chronic Disease management 4. Epidemiology
Compare & contrast varied perspectives on health, community health, and population health - ANSWER
Define disease and chronic disease - ANSWERDisease:
- physiological / psychological dysfunction - involves some abnormality - objective
Chronic Disease:
- conditions that last 1 year or more - require ongoing medical attention or limit activities of daily living or both.
explore the determinants of health and the social determinants of health and their impact on disease and chronic disease - ANSWER
Identify, compare and contrast the three levels of prevention - ANSWER1) Primary
- Environmental prevention - (basic sanitation, food safety, home and workplace safety, air quality control, specific protection against disease or injury - immunization, proper use of seatbelts, infant car seats etc)
2) Secondary
- activities that seek to detect disease early in progresssion, BEFORE CLINICAL SIGNS - screening
3) Tertiary
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