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| What is the government's role in community health |
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| Federal and state governments establish standards for community health |
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| The government implements programs at which level? |
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| Do programs implemented by the government serve the needs of the community or the individual? |
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| serve the needs of the community, rather than the individual |
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| How does the government attempt to forestall community health dysfunction? |
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| What 3 ways do providers seek to prevent disorders? |
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| providers seek to prevent disorders through discussion, modification of environmental factors and health risk behaviors |
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| What concept involves provision of health care with national goals of wellness and positive health for all? |
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| concept of community health |
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| This aspect of national goals of wellness and positive health for all is concerned with smoking, nutrition, physical fitness, and anger management |
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| This aspect of national goals of wellness and positive health for all involves control of infectious disease, accident prevention, and occupational health safety |
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| This aspect of national goals of wellness and positive health for all involves family planning, immunization, prenatal care, and STDs |
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| this aspect of national goals of wellness and positive health for all involves census, evaluation of disease risks |
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| This is a set of health objectives for the nation that builds on initiatives in 1979 Surgeon General's Report and Healthy People 2000 |
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| Healthy people is entering which decade? |
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| Healthy people entering its 3rd decade |
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| This original Healthy People in 1979 focused primarily on smoking |
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| Healthy People: The Surgeon General's Report on Health Promotion and Disease Prevention |
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| What are 2 goals of healthy people 2010? |
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1. Increase the quality and years of healthy life
2. Eliminate health disparities |
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| Physical Activity, Overweight and Obesity, Tobacco Use, Substance Abuse, Responsible Sexual Behavior, Mental health, Injury and Violence, Environmental Quality, Immunization, and Access to Health Care comprise what? |
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| Leading Health Indicators of Healthy People 2010 |
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| This is the principal govt agency charged with protecting human health and the environment, est in 1970 |
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| What was administered by the EPA with the mission to locate, investigate, and clean up the worst hazardous waste sites nationwide? |
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| What provides sources of information for every poisonous substance? |
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| Injury Prevention: Poison Control Center |
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| What provides information about the composition of the poison and the ms's needed to counteract/neutralize the toxic effect |
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| Injury Prevention: Poison Control Center |
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| Nationwide number 24/7 1800-222-1222 |
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| Injury Prevention: Poison Control Center |
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| Founded in 1979 as independent agency of the federal govt reporting to the President |
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| Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) |
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| Mission "to reduce the loss of life and property and protect the nation from all hazards, including natural disasters, acts of terrorism, and other man-made disasters, by leading and supporting the nation in a risk=based comprehensive emergency management system of preparedness, protection, response, recovery, and mitigation |
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| Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) |
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| Directing and coordinating authority for health within the United Nations System |
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| Agenda: Promoting development, fostering security, strengthening health systems, harnessing research, information and evidence, enhancing partnerships, and improving performance |
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Role in Public health:
Providing leadership on matters critical to health
Shaping the research agenda
Setting norms and standards
Articulating evidence-based policy
Assessing health trends |
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Monitor patterns of disease
Monitor for unusual diseases
*Characterizing Patterns of disease* |
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| 3 ways CDC characterizes patterns of disease |
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| Mission: "To promote and protect the health of all Virginians" |
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| Mission of Virginia Department of Health |
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| Vision statement: "Healthy people in healthy communities" |
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| vision statement of Virginia department of health |
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Involves:
Vital Stats
communicable Disease Control
Maternal and Child health
Environmental Health
Health Education
Public Health Labs |
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| Dept of Social Services, Dept of Health, and Private/institutional are all examples of |
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| This involves Adult Day care, assisted living, nursing facilities, and adult protective services |
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| elderly: dept of social services |
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| This involves child protective services, residential facilities, child support enforcement, foster care, and head start |
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| children: dept of social services |
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| This involves: drinking water safety emergency preparedness and response environmental health epidemiology family health services chronic disease prevention and control wic minority and public health and local health dept's- clinics |
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This is comprised of
VA Association of free clinics
planned parenthood
community volunteer agencies
american cancer society
american lung association
and american red cross |
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| largest volunteer EMS system in the country, involving 800 volunteer paramedics, lifeguards, EMS safety instruction |
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| busiest of all volunteer rescue squad in the country, involving *297 members (156 active, 43% UVA students*) |
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| Charlottesville-Albemarle EMS |
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| Who supplements staffing on weekdays for Charlottesville-Albemarle EMS? |
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| What is defined as a specific response by the body to a stimulus , as fear or pain, that disturbs or interferes with the normal physiological equilibrium of an organism? |
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| What involves physical, mental, or emotional strain or tension? |
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| not always; stress = change |
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| How do scales quantify stress? |
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| scales quantigyfy stress in terms of culmination of "life change units" |
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| Fatigue, headaches, indigestion, mm tension, palpitations, insomnia are examples of |
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| physical common stress-induced symptoms |
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| Irritability, anger, depression, anxiety, confusion, loneliness, difficulty concentrating are examples of |
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| mental and emotional common stress-induced symptoms |
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| Excess eating, smoking, alcohol, and exercise are examples of |
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| behavioral common stress-induced symptoms |
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| 3 stages of general adaptation syndrome |
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| alarm stage, stage of resistance, and stage of exhaustion |
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| activation of SNS with release of epinephrine |
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| adjustment to deal with stress; body can/will repair damages caused by stress or response is illness |
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| no longer capable of dealing with stress, resulting in disease manifestations |
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| Exploring a pt's relationships is an important aspect of this |
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