Glossary
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| (Eg. "Genetic, Hereditary, DNA ...") | (Eg. "Relating to genes or heredity") | ![]() |
The infamous double helix | https://bio.libretexts.org/ | CC-BY-SA; Delmar Larsen |
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Definition |
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| social determinants of health | the conditions in which people are born, grow, live, work and age, and people’s access to power, money and resources | https://www.who.int/health-topics/so...alth#tab=tab_1 | |||
| Healthy People 2030 |
Healthy People 2030 is the nation’s 10-year plan for addressing critical public health priorities and challenges, with measurable objectives and resources for action. |
https://odphp.health.gov/our-work/na...ons-answers#q1 | |||
| downstream | closer to the impacts or effects of a health problem (contrasted with upstream); akin to tertiary prevention | ||||
| upstream | closer to the cause of a health problem (contrasted with downstream); akin to primary prevention | ||||
| risk factor | traits, behaviors or conditions that increase the probability of disease, injury, or death | ||||
| protective factor | traits, behaviors or conditions that decrease the probability of disease, injury, or death | ||||
| biomedical model | addresses health issues as a function of risk factors, symptoms, diagnoses, and treatments; rooted in clinical medicine | ||||
| social ecological model | identifies health outcomes as influenced by the interaction among the individual, the group/community, and the physical, social, and political environments | ||||
| isolation | separating a person with an active infection from others to prevent spread | ||||
| quarantine | separating a person with a suspected exposure or infection from others to prevent spread | ||||
| variolation | historical method of immunizing healthy individuals against smallpox by infecting them with substance from the sores of patients with a mild form of the disease | https://www.britannica.com/science/variolation | |||
| vaccination | The process of using a vaccine to stimulate the immune system to provide protection against a disease. | https://www.cdc.gov/nchs/hus/sources...accination.htm | |||
| vaccine | a preparation that is administered (as by injection) to stimulate the body's immune response against a specific infectious agent or disease; it may include an attenuated (weakened or inactive) version of the infectious agent, or a genetic fragment of the infectious agent, or an unrelated compound that creates immune response to a biological or nonbiological agent (including poisons) | https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/vaccine | |||
| miasma theory | an abandoned medical theory that held that diseases were caused by a miasma, a noxious form of "bad air". | https://en.Wikipedia.org/wiki/Miasma_theory | |||
| germ theory | the currently accepted scientific theory for many diseases, stating that microorganisms known as pathogens or "germs" can cause infectious disease. | https://en.Wikipedia.org/wiki/Germ_theory_of_disease | |||
| life expectancy | the average number of years of life remaining to a person at a particular age (e.g., life expectancy at birth, life expectancy at age 60) | https://www.cdc.gov/nchs/hus/sources...expectancy.htm | |||
| epidemiology | |||||
| epidemic | |||||
| endemic | |||||
| pandemic | |||||
| community organizing |
Community organization is defined as the process by which community groups are helped to identify common problems or goals, mobilize resources, and develop and implement strategies for reaching the goals they collectively have set. |
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| community building | |||||
| health promotion | any planned combination of educational, political, environmental, regulatory, or organizational mechanisms that support actions and conditions of living conducive to the health of individuals, groups, and communities. | Coalition of National Health Education Organizations. (2020). Joint Committee on Health Education and Promotion Terminology Report. https://www.cnheo.org/2020-joint-com...rminology.html | |||
| community capacity | |||||
| social capital | |||||
| maternal mortality | |||||
| mortality | |||||
| morbidity | |||||
| infant mortality | |||||
| hypertension | |||||
| cardiovascular disease | |||||
| maternal mortality | |||||
| child mortality | |||||
| health education | any combination of planned learning experiences using evidence-based practices and/or sound theories that provide the opportunity to acquire knowledge, attitudes, and skills needed to adopt and maintain health behaviors. | Coalition of National Health Education Organizations. (2020). Joint Committee on Health Education and Promotion Terminology Report. https://www.cnheo.org/2020-joint-com...rminology.html | |||
| social advocacy | |||||
| community capacity development | |||||
| planning and policy practice | |||||
| strengths-based | |||||
| needs-based |



