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What are the 4 leading causes of mortality in ALL AGE GROUPS?
Heart Disease, Malignant Neoplasms (cancer), Cerebrovascular Disease, Chronic Respiratory Disease, Unintentional Injury
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Define Mortality
The proportion of deaths to the population
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What are the 4 leading causes of mortality in AGES 15-24?
Unintentional Injury, Homicide, Suicide, Malignant Neoplasms (Cancer), Heart Disease
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Describe this dimension: Physical Health.
The ability to perform normal activities of daily life.
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Describe this dimension: Emotional Health.
The ability to control one's emotions, and able to express them freely when appropriate.
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Describe this dimension: Spiritual Health.
The belief in a supreme being through religion. On the other hand, it is also leading a balanced, fulfilling life.
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Describe this dimension: Social Health.
The ability to create and maintain interpersonal relationships, adaptation to social situations, and act appropriately in social places.
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Describe this dimension: Intellectual Health.
The ability to think cognitively to solve problems, analyze critically, reason objectively, and learn from mistakes.
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Describe this dimension: Environmental Health.
The appreciation for the external environment and the efforts to preserve, protect, and improve the environment.
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Define homicide.
Homicide is death caused by intent to injure or kill.
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Define sexual assault.
Sexual intimacy with another without their consent.
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Define sexual harassment.
Sexual attention to someone without their consent in terms of personal performance or employment.
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What are the leading causes of violence?
Poverty, Unemployment, Parental Influences, Political, social, ethnic, sexual, or religious differences, stress, discrimination, or substance abuse.
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Define domestic violence.
Use of force to control another in a home environment. Includes both harm and threat to harm.
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Define rape.
Sexual penetration without victim's consent.
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Describe global warming.
Carbon Dioxide is excessive in the atmosphere, causing a greenhouse effect around the surface, taking in solar heat and trapping some of it, warming the planet.
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List the sources of sulfur dioxide pollution.
Sulfur burning (like coal or oil), fuel extraction from oil, metal extraction from ore.
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List the sources of carbon monoxide pollution.
Motor vehicle emission.
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Define zero population growth.
The belief system that each couple creates up to 2 offspring to replace them when they die, causing the population growth to stabilize.
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Define health.
The ever-changing process of achieving an individual's potential in the physical, social, emotional, mental, spiritual, and environmental dimensions.
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Describe enabling factors.
Enabling factors are things that make it easy or difficult to make a health decision. Examples include convenient resources, skills, abilities, etc.
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Describe reinforcing factors.
Reinforcing factors are things that either support or discourage a behavior. Examples include rewards, family support, or health provider costs.
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Describe predisposing factors.
Life experiences, knowledge, cultural and ethnic backgrounds are predisposing factors.
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Define shaping.
Shaping is to take small steps to reach a greater goal.
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Define visualization.
Visualization is to picture a goal in the mind to better prepare for it.
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Define reinforcement.
Presenting something positive following a behavior.
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What is primary aggression?
Primary aggression is a goal-directed, hostile assertion that is destructive in character.
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What is reactive aggression?
Reactive aggression is a hostile emotional reaction due to frustrating life experiences.
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What is incidence?
Incidence is the number of new cases.
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What is prevalence?
Prevalence is the number of existing cases?
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What is morbidity?
Morbidity is the incidence of disease.
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What is the cycle of violence?
TENSION BUILDING, ACUTE BATTERING, REMORSE/RECONCILIATION
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What is a case study?
A case study is an observational study of an individual or small group of people to compare to the greater population.
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What is a survey?
A survey is an interview or questionnaire to determine statistical data for the greater population.
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What is an experiment?
An experiment is a scientific study of biological or chemical properties to determine characteristics.
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What are primary research sources?
Original works, written when occurrence happened. Examples: scholarly journals, diaries, letters, works of literature.
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What are secondary research sources?
Analytical works. Examples: magazines, newspapers, commentaries, biographical works.
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What are tertiary research sources?
Summaries of works. Examples: dictionary, encyclopedia, scholarly books, bibliography.
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Define atherosclerosis.
A condition characterized by plaque build-up in the inner linings of an artery.
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Define cancer.
A large group of diseases that are characterized by the uncontrollable growth and spread of abnormal cells.
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What are oncogenes?
They are suspected cancer-causing genes.
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What are carcinogens?
They are cancer-causing agents.
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Healthy People 2010 primary goals are:
1. Increase the life expectancy, and 2. Eliminate health disparities.
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Healthy People 2010 focus goal is to lower the proportion of adults who smoke. What is the base statistic, the goal statistic, and current statistic?
Base statistic: 24%. Goal statistic: 12%. Current statistic: 20%.
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Healthy People 2010 focus goal is to increase smoke-free environments. What is the base, goal, and current statistic?
Base statistic: 37%. Goal statistic: 100%. Current statistic: 64%.
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Healthy People 2010 focus goal is to increase the percentage of people using safety belts. What is the base, goal, and current statistic?
Base statistic: 69%. Goal statistic: 92%. Current statistic: 82%.
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