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1. vital statistics: The collection, tabulation, and interpretation of data concerningbirth, marriage, divorce, sickness, and death. 2. Morbidity: presence of illness in population 3. mortality: re... lated to tracking of deaths in a population 4. cases: people afflicted (those who are sick) 5. social justice: justice in terms of the distribution of wealth, opportunities, andprivileges within a society. 6. Epidemiology: the branch of medicine that deals with the incidence, distribution,and possible control of diseases and other factors relating to health. 7. Population Health: health outcomes of a group of people, and the distribution ofthose outcomes within the group 8. Incidence: number of new cases 9. Prevalence: The number or proportion of cases of a particular disease or condi-tion present in a population at a within a specific time frame 10. Outcomes: End result that follows an intervention 11. Inter-professional collaboration: Health professionals work together in smallgroups providing care. Examples: oncology, OR, end of life or primary care. 12. Healthy People 2020: A set of disease prevention and health promotion objectives for Americans to meet during the second decade of the new millennium. 13. Determinants of health: Factors that raise or lower a level of health in a population or individual. Determinants of health help to explain or predict trends inhealth and why some groups have better or worse health than others. 14. Campaign for Action: mobilizes nurses, health providers, consumers to strengthen nursing through policy changes. Goal based on IOM future of nursingreport. 15. primary intervention: process of altering susceptibility or reducing exposure to prevent disease prior to the person getting it, ex:immunizations, tobacco preventioninitiatives 16. secondary intervention: early detection of disease or risk factors and intervention during an asymptomatic phase, ex: pap smear, rapid HIV, annual cholesterol test 17. tertiary intervention: an intervention that occurs after the initial occurrence ofsymptoms but before irreversible disability occurs, ex: cardiac rehab programs 18. aggregate: defined population 19. community: composed of multiple aggregates 20. high risk populations: Certain groups of people who have a higher risk ofgetting an illness than others 21. Validity: The ability of a test to measure what it is intended to measure 22. specificity: The ability of the test to identify correctly those who do not have thedisease. 23. sensitivity: the ability of a test to correctly identify those with the disease 24. continuous variable screenings: those that are not either positive or negativebut occur on a continuum of values [Show More]

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