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Morbidity

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Condition of suffering from illness or injury

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Mortality

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Being subject to death

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Population health

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Thinking of health on a population level

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Quality of Life (QoL)

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How people perceive their health and lives

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Health

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Overall wellbeing; social, physical, and mental

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Public Health

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promoting and protect overall health in a population and improving quality of life.

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Health Outcome

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The disease, illness, or injury that is impacting ones quality of life.

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Determinants

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Factors the impact someone having public health issues. (factors, influences, conditions) Can be personal, social, economic, or environmental

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Life expectancy from birth

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the amount of years you can expect to live of a baby born in any given year. This is most inclusive because it measures deaths of all causes.

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3 levels of prevention

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primary prevention
secondary prevention
tertiary prevention

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primary prevention

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The action of preventing disease. EX - exercise or getting a vaccine

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secondary prevention

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Action you take early in the disease; Preventing death and serious disease by early protection. EX - getting regular screenings for cancer

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tertiary prevention

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Steps people take to lessen the effects of the disease or disability. Can include actions to prevent recurrence of disease. EX - taking an antibiotic

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Social determinants of health (SDOH)

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Factors in peoples everyday lives like where they live and work that impact their health

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Norms

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Unwritten rules that govern peoples behavior. EX - looking both ways before crossing the street

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Social Support

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The feeling of acceptance from ones social network. This is one of the most influential factors

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Health behaviors

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Peoples behaviors that impact ones health

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Micro-level determinants

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Individual factors that are out of peoples control that impact their health. EX - age, gender, race

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Macro-level determinants

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Factors that are part of society and environment that are hard to change that impact a communities health. Very similar to social determinants. EX - policies

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Health equity

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What different communities NEED to attain highest levels of health

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equity vs equality

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Equity is giving everyone what they need to be health. Equality is giving everyone the same thing to be healthy

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primary care

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general medical practice like doctors that aren’t specialized in one area.

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Health literacy

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Your ability to access, read, and use medical information to make a healthy decision for yourself

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social capital

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The features of an organization that makes it inclusive. Having a higher social capital make it more inclusive.

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Intersectionality
The social categories that people are a part of and how they impact peoples experiences. When a person is a member of multiple vulnerable population your risk for health discrimination increases.
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Food insecurity
The ability for people to access food
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Poverty
If a person has an income under a number set by the government then they are living in poverty
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Adverse childhood experiences (ACEs)
Traumatic events that happen between the ages of 0 and 17
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Dose response relationship
Risk increases or decreases as exposure increases. EX - the more ACEs someone has the higher risk they are at for negative health outcomes
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Whitehall study
followed peoples at different "grades" of employment and found that the lower their "grade" of employment was associated with greater health risks like obesity and high blood pressure. (Gradient of wealth and health)
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Unnatural Causes
Video talks about the lives of different people about how their status or grades are related to their health. The less control they have at work the more stressed they are and higher risk for health outcomes
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Jim Taylor (CEO)
The wealthiest and he had the least stressful life and he was the healthiest.
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Tondray Young (Lab supervisor)
She classified as middle class and was able to own a house but she still had student debt and in school but was relatively healthy.
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Corey Anderson
He had a lower income and lived in an unsafe neighborhood. He had very little control at work and was stressed more often, he also had a predisposition for heart disease.
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Mary Turner
She was unemployed and had a lot of things to take care of while also having the lowest health of the 4.
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Cortisol
The hormone released when one is stressed to take action and stay safe. Constant stress means cortisol levels stay high and this prolonged release of cortisol causes physical changes in brain and decrease logic side of behaviors.
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John Snow
He tracked cases of disease with a map to theorize the water pump was what was infecting people. Considered father of Epidemiology
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Epidemiology
The study of determinants and of health or illness that effect quality of life of a populations and using the data to increase quality of life
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Disability-adjusted life years (DALYs)
The years of life lost due to illness or disability in a population. A negative way of measuring health
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Healthy days of life
Amount of days with good health of an individual. Positive way of measuring health
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Rate
The measure of event, disease, or condition related to a population within a specific time. EX - death of white and black mothers in 5 years.
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Incidence rate
Number of NEW cases of disease within a population within a time period
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Prevalence rate
The TOTAL number of cases in a population within a time period
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Endemic
When a disease is normally present in an area and can be expected to have a base number of cases each year.
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Epidemic
When there are more cases of a disease than expected
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Pandemic
An epidemic that crosses geographical regions
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contributory causes
A connection between determinate and health outcome
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multi-causation disease model
A model that says a disease can have more than one factor that causes it (similar to socioeconomic scope)
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McGinnis
He found that a lot of deaths were due to behaviors and preventable causes
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socio-ecological model
Explains the complexity of health outcomes by connecting it to macro and micro influences like social and environmental factors.
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sufficient cause
all people impacted by determinant will get the health outcome
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necessary cause
people not exposed to determinant will not get the health outcome
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relationship strength (relative risk)
risk for health outcome if you experience a determinant is increased (RR = (probability of lung cancer if smoking exists)/(probability of lung cancer if smoking does NOT exist)
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consistency
same outcome will happen over and over agin also across locations
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Plausibility
How it can happen in the body. (biological and others)

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