Communicable Disease Prevention and Control Flashcards
(35 cards)
Arises from the fact that it is essential towards the people’s overall well-being.
Disease Causation and Process
Takes place when the health of an individual is not met fully.
Disease
Role of healthcare providers: To ensure that ____ will be taken care of.
Sick Individuals
____ of healthcare providers: Not able to give adequate care to people who needed health services.
Shortage
— Must allot important funds on the plans concerning promoting health, especially people in the community.
Local Government Units (LGUs)
If a community is not healthy, it is a ____ as to how LGUs in that area perform its function in making health a priority for everyone.
Reflection
— Diseases that can be transmitted from one person to another.
— Understand how to prevent and control these diseases from taking place in an individual.
Communicable Diseases
— Cases of a particular disease.
— People afflicted with a particular disease.
Morbidity
Top ten leading causes of morbidity.
- Acute Respiratory Infection
- Hypertension
- ALRTI and Pneumonia
- Urinary Tract Infection
- Bronchitis
- Influenza
- Acute Watery Diarrhea
- Asthma All Forms
- TB Respiratory
- Acute Febrile Illness
Healthcare providers need to provide ____ concerning the importance of promoting understanding on communicable diseases to lessen the likelihood of these diseases.
Massive Education
Officers in our community must be involved in understanding ____ that take place in the community itself.
Trends
Ten leading causes of death.
- Ischemic Heart Diseases
- Neoplasms
- Cerebrovascular Diseases
- Pneumonia
- Diabetes Mellitus
- Hypertensive Diseases
- Chronic Lower Respiratory Infections
- Respiratory Tuberculosis
- Other heart diseases
- Remainder of diseases of the genitourinary system
— Involves the study of the distribution and determinants of health-related states and events in populations, and the application of this study to control health problems (Last, 1983).
— Described as the basic science of public health.
— From the Greek words:
Epi: On or upon
Demos: People
Logos: The study
Epidemiology
In epidemiology, we get the ____, ____, and ____ to increase engagement, understanding, and awareness of healthcare providers in making sure their community is following the standards.
— Cases
— Number of People who have the Disease
— Analyze Possible Ways
Concerned with the determinants of health events in a population.
Frequency and Pattern
— Focuses on the relationship that exists between the number or cases of a particular disease and the size of the population.
— More of counting: Categorize into groups.
Frequency
— Occurrence of health-related events by time, place and person.
— Talks about in what particular instances can we exhibit a large amount of people attending an activity and how many in particular are dispersed in the particular area.
Pattern
— Risk factors of epidemiology.
— Pertains to what would be the causes and factors in understanding the processes behind the occurrence of the disease.
Determinants
— Involves a disorder of structure or function in humans, especially one that produces specific symptoms or that affects a specific location and is not simply a direct result of physical injury.
— Best explained through the use of Epidemiologic Triad.
Disease
— First model of disease causation.
— The traditional model for infectious disease.
— Consists of an external agent, a susceptible host, and an environment that brings the host and agent together which results in disease through the interaction of the three dynamic elements.
— Proposed by John Wade Frost (1928).
Epidemiologic Triad
Regardless of the agent, host, or environment, they ____ the development of illness.
Predispose
An infectious microorganism or pathogen which exposure to an organism will result in disease through a variety of factors.
Agent
Agents can be attributed into five.
— Physical agents
— Chemical agents
— Nutrient agents
— Mechanical agents
— Social agents
— Refers to the human who gets the disease.
— Exposure, susceptibility, or response to a causative agent is influenced by risk factors.
Host