[Health Sciences 4202A/B] - Final Exam Guide - Comprehensive Notes for the exam (26 pages long!)

• School: Western University
• Department: Health Sciences
• Course: Health Sciences 4202A/B
• Professor: Kevin Thompson

Document Summary

H e a l t h s c i e n c e s 4 2 0 2 a / b. An assessment of community perceptions provides a starting point for identifying quality of life concerns. Includes identifying the specific health problems that are contributing to or interacting with the quality of life concerns identified in the social assessment. Consists of two parts: descriptive epidemiology: facts regarding the time, place, and population attributes of the health problem are collected through mortality (death), morbidity (illness), and disability rates, analytic epidemiology: examines the determinants of health; identifying behaviors and environments. Identify predisposing, reinforcing and enabling factors (knowledge, values, attitudes, etc. ) Predisposing factors: provides motivation for the behavior. Reinforcing factors: allows a motivation or environmental policy to be realized (availability of resources, legislations, skills, etc. ) Enabling factors: provides continuing reward for sustaining the behavior (family, health providers, decision makers, etc. ) Phase 4: administrative and policy assessment and intervention alignment.