General Public Health Flashcards
(30 cards)
YPLL - top causes before nad after age 65
years of potential life lost
before: unintential accident, neoplasms, HD
After: HD, cancer, stroke
QALY
Adjustment in the length of life according to the quality of life
HALE
Health adjusted life expectancy - adjust overall life expectancy acounting for morbidity and mortality describing those years lived in less than perfect health.
Cost utility
uses QALY and DALY to compare different interventions and outcomes relative to a patients quality of life
Cost Benefit Analysis
expected benefits subtracted from the cost of the implementation in monetary units
Cost Effective analysis
cost compared to the outcome acheived
Efficacy vs effectiveness
Efficacy is in controlled circumstances, effectiveness is in the real world
Under what conditions would a mother vertically transmit Hep B
Hep B antigen surface and e antigen.
How long do you wait between giving doses of a live vaccine.
4 weeks.
What are the 3 core functions of public health
Assessment, policy development and assurance
Under what office does the surgeon general fall
under the office of the assistant secretary for health which is a part of DHHS
What office does the surgeon general oversee
US public health service commissioned corps
What age children benefit from WIC
5 and under
What is PEPFAR
US presidents plan for AIDs relief
What are the 3 leading causes of death in jails
suicide, substance, accident
Jail is less than a year
What are the 2 leading causes of death in prison
HD and Cancer
What is the Theory of reasoned action
Assumes that people are rationale and their behavior is under their controlled. Therefore there behavioral intention controls the actual beahvior change
What are the 6 categories of the diffusion of innovation model
innovators, early adaptors, early majority, late majority, late adaptors and laggards
What is CHANGE
Community health assessment and group evaluation
What are the first steps is CHANGE
- assemble the community team
2 develop a team strategy - review all 5 change sectors
- gather data
What are the 5 change sectors
community at large, community institution, health care, school, work site
What ia PATCH
Planned approach to community health
What are the phases of patch
- mobilize the community
- collect and organize the data
- Choosing health priorities
- Developing a comprehensive intervention plan
- Evaluating Patch
What are Rothman’s 3 distinct community organization models
- social action
- social planning
- locality development
