Personal and Community Health Midterm Exam Review

I. Definitions

Health Communicable disease

Healthy people initiative Community organizing

Epidemiology Gatekeepers

Life expectancy Noncommunicable disease

Pilot test Community health

School Health Advisory Council

II. Identifies

Factors that affect health Types of disease

Types of studies Criteria for causation

Levels of prevention with examples Evaluation Types

Organization categories with examples Modes of transmission

Steps for creating local health-related policies

Incidence vs. prevalence

III. Essay

Choose a health topic and create an intervention to addresses that issue. In your short essay you should identify the health issue, the target audience, describe the intervention, and any expected outcomes.