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Vocabulary Week 2

By Patricia Amador

Ana G. Mendez University

Prof. Gilberto Andino

NURSE 403 – Community Health Nursing

May 18, 2021

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Word
Sanitation
Standard of living
Population focused
Interprofessional collaboration  Interprofessional collaboration is the practice and education where
WHO and its main goal(s)
Primary prevention
Secondary prevention
Tertiary prevention
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Vocabulary Week 2
Definition
Sanitation refers to all public health conditions related to drinking water;
also refers to appropriate treatment and excreta of human disposal and
sewage. In addition, sanitation includes preventing human contact with
feces, as well as hand washing with soap.
Standard of living is the level of comfort, income and services available
that are applied to a location or a society, instead of an individual.
Example, a low standard of living is a person with minimum salary that
struggles every month to pay his bills.
Population focused is a healthcare practice directed to structural or social
factors, instead of an individual alone. It approaches communities, cities,
neighborhoods, states and, even nations.
healthcare professionals from two or more backgrounds meet, interact,
practice and learn together with the client as the center of care, see Image
1. Interprofessional collaboration is a powerful strategy to achieve
optimal health results for the clients.
WHO stands for World Health Organization. A society works worldwide
with the purpose of improving access to health services, keeping
communities safer from outbreaks and emergencies, and aiming for a
healthier living. The WHO focus on primary healthcare, universal health
and health emergencies. Also this organization deals with non-
communicable diseases prevention, mental health promotion, climate
change, elimination and eradication of high impact communicable
diseases, and anti-microbial resistance.
Primary prevention consists of preventing a lesion, disease or injury
before it occurs. This is done by preventing exposure to hazards,
avoiding unhealthy or unsafe behaviors. Examples are vaccinations,
altering risky behaviors (tobacco and alcohol use, poor eating habits).
See Images 2 and 3.
In secondary prevention we try to detect a disease or injury early, at the
same time prevent it from becoming worse, halting or slowing its
progress. This type of prevention is achieved by screening, in order to
identify diseases in early stages, such as mammography and regular blood
pressure testing.
The management of a disease after the diagnosis is made by utilization of
measures like chemotherapy, screening for complications and
rehabilitation. Tertiary prevention bases on preventing injury recurrence.
Images
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Image 1. Example of interprofessional collaboration. Image from Position Statement - Interprofessional

Continuing Education (ausmed.com).

Image 2. Primary prevention for cardiovascular disease: Lifestyles changes and Team-based care. Image
from ResearchGate.
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Image 3. Prevention of violence in all three aspects. Image from Effectiveness of secondary and tertiary
prevention for violence against women in low and low-middle income countries: a systematic review | BMC Public
Health | Full Text (biomedcentral.com)