Community Health Flashcards
(34 cards)
Health insurance for elderly and disabled (HINT: Medical-is only for ELDERLY)
Medicare
Health insurance for the poor?
Medicaid
Consolidated Omnibus Budget Reconciliation Act- offers insurance to workers when they no longer work?
COBRA
GRANTS:
Lump sum of money given to group to use their discretion to accomplish program goal?
Block grants
GRANTS:
Specifies where monies are to be used?
Line item grant
Broad based statement of what changes will occur as a result of the program?
Goal
Specific statement that can be measured, the desired result of the program; based on the needs of the program?
Objective
Learner has incomplete or inaccurate information?
Unawareness
Correct information is obtained but lacks personal meaning?
Awareness
Learner personalizes information?
Self-Interest
Old ideas are discarded for new; leaner is motivated to act?
Involvement
Learner tests new concepts based on perceived needs?
Action
Leaner begins to experience gratification and self-satisfaction; behavior is modified?
Habit
The number of live births (think prenatal care)?
Natality
The rate of an illness in a population?
Morbidity
The number of deaths in a population?
Mortality
The number of new cases in a population during a time period; conveys information abut the risk of contracting a disease?
Incidence
The number of new and old cases of a disease in a given population in a given period of time; tells how wide spread the disease is?
Prevalence
An incidence rate calculated for a particular population for a single disease outbreak?
Attack
An outbreak of disease over a wide geographical area such as a continent
Pandemic
An unexpectedly large number of cases of disease in a particular time and place?
Epidemic
A disease that occurs regularly in a population as a matter of course; EXPECTED normal level of disease; predictable?
Endemic
A group is observed over a long period of time?
Longitudinal Study
A cohort is classified by exposure to one or more specific risk factors observed into the future to determine the rate at which the disease develops?
Prospective Study