HK 44500 Chapter Notes - Chapter 1: National Health And Nutrition Examination Survey, Public Health, Health Promotion

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Six dimensions: physical, social, mental, emotional, spiritual, environmental. Promote dimensions of health of a population as a whole. 3 core functions: assess and monitor, formulate public policies, ensure all populations have access. The study of distribution and determinants of health-related states or events in human populations and the application. Basic science or foundation of public health. Role: assessment if, where, and when, causes, clinical picture exposures and probable outcomes, evaluation efficacy and measure the effectiveness. Study of disease, events, behaviors, and conditions. Types: descriptive distribution, distribution = the frequency and pattern of a health-related state or event, frequency, pattern person, time, and place, analytic associations, testing hypothesis, and identifying causes. Causes and risk factors: cause precedes the health outcome and is necessary for its occurrence, prevented, may not be sufficient, risk factor association. Ongoing systemic collection, analysis, interpretation, and dissemination of health data. Efficacy = ability of a program to produce a desire effect among those who participate in program.

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