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Population Health, Epidemiology &
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Chamberlain
Medical care, public health interventions, characteristics of the
social environment (e.g., income, education, employment, social
support, culture), physical environment (e.g., housing, air, and
water quality), genetics, and individual behavior
Determinants of health
Frequently used in nursing and healthcare to evaluate quality of
care and relies on the examination of 3
components: structure (refers to healthcare resources, such as
the number and type of health and social services agencies, and
can also include utilization indicators), process (describes how
the healthcare is delivered), and outcome (refers to the change in
health status related to the intervention provided)
Donabedian framework
,Births, deaths, marriages, divorces, fetal deaths, and induced
termination of pregnancies; provide important outcome measures
that APRNs can monitor and compare over time and analyze by
demographic variables to detect such things as health disparities
(can be found through the National Center for Health Statistics
[NCHS] located within the Centers for Disease Control and
Prevention [CDC])
Vital statistics
A system established to collect state-level data and also allows
states to estimate prevalence for regions that can be compared
across states; pivotal in assessing and addressing urgent or
emergent health issues
Behavioral Risk Factor Surveillance System (BRFSS)
Joint effort between AHRQ and DHHS to report on healthcare
quality improvement; intent is to respond to the status of
healthcare quality in the US, identify where improvement is most
needed, and describe how the quality of healthcare that is given
to Americans changes over time; includes more than 250
,measures of quality and disparities and uses the Three Aims for
Improving Healthcare as its framework (better care, healthy
people/healthy community, and affordable care)
National Healthcare Quality and Disparities Report (QDR)
Serves as a blueprint or road map for the US to achieve health
promotion and disease prevention objectives that are designed to
improve the health of all Americans; emphasizes the importance
of a variety of influences on health, such as personal (e.g.,
genetic, biological, psychological), organizational or institutional
(e.g., Head Start or employee health programs), environmental
(e.g., social and physical), and policy level (e.g., smoking bans in
public, seat belt laws); moves beyond an individual-level
approach to interventions and guides the creation of policies to
promote the social and physical environments that are conducive
to health
Healthy People 2020 (HP2020)
Refers to the progression of a disease from its preclinical
state (prior to symptoms) to its clinical state (from onset of
symptoms to cure, control, disability, or death); understanding the
, different stages allows for a better understanding of the approach
to the prevention and control of disease
Natural history of disease
Refers to the time prior to disease development
Stage of Susceptibility
The disease process has begun but there are no obvious
symptoms
Preclinical Stage of Disease
Sufficient physiologic and/or functional changes occur, leading to
the development of recognizable symptoms of disease; also
referred to as the treatment stage
Clinical Stage of Disease
Broken into 4 subparts—preclinical stage (the acquisition of
disease prior to development of symptoms and is destined to
become disease, subclinical stage (occurs when someone has
the disease but it is not destined to develop clinically, chronic or
