hsc 318 final Flashcards
(40 cards)
According to the WHO health is defined as?
A state of complete physical, mental and social well being
When a health educator respects the rights, dignity, confidentiality, and worth of people, he or she is showing?
Responsibility in the delivery of health education
Specific forms of behavior that are proven to be associated with increased susceptibility to a specific disease or ill health are known as?
Risk behaviors
Which of the following answers most accurately describes the components of population health?
Health outcomes, health determinants, and the policies and interventions that affect the determinants in any population
Why do improved outcomes in population health require rigorous analysis of outcomes?
Better health is consistently achieved through outcome analysis
The US healthcare system currently emphasizes ?
proper medical care for emergencies and acute illness
The shift from the focus of individual service provided by health systems to population focus measures will require health systems to regularly monitor?
Community level health data
Epidemiologic studies should be conducted by blank to accommodate for the fact that population health is due to a combination of biological, environmental, and social factors?
Multidisciplinary teams
When demographic sub groups have higher occurrence of disease compared to other groups this is referred to as?
Health disparities
While health policymakers and thought leaders are increasingly interested in addressing the social determinants of health as a means to improve quality of care and reduce healthcare costs, their ability to do so hinges on?
Efforts to understand how best to assess and address the non-clinical factors that impact health
According to the future for healthcare improvement, the elements of the triple aim are?
Experience of care per capita cost , population health
This is an important concept of population health because it defines the population of patients for whom a physician is responsible?
Capitation
Gathering data from multiple sources, to create a full set of data on a population is called?
Data aggregation
Population health analytics and alternative payment models revolve around identifying patients and populations who need more care than others. What is this concept called?
Risk stratification
The most important takeaway for population health leaders from this chapter is?
You need to actively contribute to and be key sponsors for a workforce development plan to be effective
The best definition of health equity is?
The attainment of the highest level of heat for all people
Essay: how do health models support health education and health promotion?
A model can be characterized as a theory in early stages, models may or may not have empirical evidence to support them, models provide guidance for planning health education and health promotion programs
Essay: What are the key differences between descriptive and analytic epidemiology?
Key diff between descriptive and analytic epidemiology, are that descriptive epi summarizes the impact and extent of health related events among particular groups while analytic epi focus on the search for determinants of disease
In healthcare value is defined as?
Patient health outcomes achieved per dollar spent
Essay: what additives to the triple aim concepts are being discussed to develop quadruple aim?
Quadruple aim is the expansion of the triple aim enhancing patient experience, improving population health, and reducing costs to include an additional goal of improving the work life of health care providers healthcare badly conflict between the Quadruple aim are reducing costs, improving population health, patient experience, and team wellbeing and productivity.
In your own words, what is epidemiology?
Epidemiology is the study of diseases and their Origins to develop an interventions
What are the big four Health behaviors indicated for the US ?
Smoking, alcohol consumption, physical activity, dietary intake
Essay:What is health behavior theory and how can these be used to develop Health interventions? Provide an example of a health behavior theory and how it can be used.
Health behavior Theory are Concepts that attempt to describe behaviors that are from diverse disciplines such as anthropology and psychology by understanding behavioral theories Health interventions and help promotions can be derived to improve out an example of a health behavior Theory is social cognitive learning theory that attempts to identify and describe how health is perceived so the ability to make changes to unhealthy Health behaviors to create improvements format such as the health belief model can be used to assess physical activity smoking Behavior as well as other health behaviors.
When demographic subgroups have higher occurrence of disease compared to other groups this is referred to as ?
health disparities
