Public Health Key Terms

This set of flashcards covers key terms related to public health, including definitions and explanations of essential concepts.

Clinical Care

Prevention, treatment, and management of illness and preservation of mental and physical well-being through services offered by medical and allied health professions.

Determinant

Factor that contributes to the generation of a trait.

Epidemic

Occurrence in a community or region of cases of an illness, specific health-related behavior, or other health-related event clearly in excess of normal expectancy.

Health Outcome

Result of a medical condition that directly affects the length or quality of a person’s life.

Intervention

Action or ministration that produces an effect or is intended to alter the course of a pathologic process.

Pandemic

Denoting a disease affecting or attacking the population of an extensive region, country, or continent.

Population Health

Approach to health that aims to improve the health of an entire population.

Prevention

Action so as to avoid, forestall, or circumvent a happening, conclusion, or phenomenon (e.g., disease).