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Public Health Ch. 19
Stanhope & Lancaster
Question | Answer |
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economic risk | a possible danger to a family's health determined by the relationship between family financial resources and the demands on those resources |
empowerment | helping people acquire the skills and information necessary for informed decision makeing and ensuring that they have the authority to make decisions that affect them |
family crisis | a situation whereby the demands aof the situation exceed the resources and coping capacity of the family |
family health | a condition including the promotion and maintenance of physical, mental, spiritual and social health for the family unit and individual family members |
Health risk appraisal | process of identifying and analyzing an individuals prognostic characteristics of health and comparing them with those of a standard age group theereby providing a prediction of a persons likelihood of prematurely developong the health problems that have |
health risk reduction | |
the factors that determine or influence whether disease or other unhealthy results occur. |