NURS 287 Lecture Notes - Upper Respiratory Tract Infection, Tetanospasmin, Health Literacy
12 Dec 2013
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Use the population health approach: achieves population health by addressing the influences on health called sedoh. Health patterns through a health indicator. Within and between groups (first nation, homeless, gender, socioeconomic status) Marginalized groups: experience fewer privileges, rights, access and power as a result of their position within a political system or a social structure. Vulnerable groups: are more likely than other populations to have adverse health outcomes. Study of the occurrence and distribution of health-related states or events in specified populations . To determine the extent of a disease process or health challenge and its final effects on a population we must collect data and analyze and interpret. Study of distribution and determinants of disease frequency in human population in order to control health problems . Agent: force that prolongs, bacteria, stimulus, determinants that exist in the environment. Environment: factors that promote expose of the agent to the host. Host: that which is impacted by the agent.
