PSYC 1002 Study Guide - Final Guide: 1999 In Pride Fc, Empowered, Gerald Caplan
30 Jan 2014
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Prevention is helpful in addressing problems in living, prevention has historically been used for abortions, drugs, immigration, economic justice, poverty. Prevention is important because: 1) numbers problem because there isn"t enough people to treat everyone 2) some problems are difficult to treat like antisocial personality disorder 3) more cost-effective than treatment. Preventions is underfunded because 1) benefits are less immediate 2) it challenges the status quo by taking political action to address social problems. Prevention: taking action beforehand to avoid future undesirable consequences and it was rooted in the 19th century public health movement. Incidence: means the number of new cases coming in the population over an amount of time. Prevalence: the number of all cases that exist in a particular time that reflect both incidence rate and duration of disease. It"s the percentage of people with a disease at a given time. P goes down if i goes down and p goes down if treatment reduces duration of disease.
