Chap.03
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Terms | Definitions |
|---|---|
 Evaluation | Collection of the methods. skills, and activities necessary to determine whether a service or program is needed, likely to be used, conducted as planned, and actually helps people. |
| Goals | The end points toward which intervention efforts are directed. A statement of changes sought in an injury problem, stated in broad terms. |
| Haddon Matrix | A framework developed by William Haddon, Jr, MD as a method to generate ideas about injury prevention that address the host, agent, and environment and their impact in the pre-event, event, and post-event phases of the injury process. |
| Implementation Plan | A strategy for carrying out an intervention. Includes goals, objectives, activities, evaluation measures, resource assessment, and time line. |
| Injuries | Any unintentional or intentional damage to the body resulting from acute exposure to thermal, mechanical, electrical, or chemical energy or from the absence of such essentials as heat or oxygen. |
| Injury Risk | A potentially hazardous situation that puts people in a position in which they could be harmed. |
| Injury Surveillance | The ongoing systematic collection, analysis, and interpretation of injury data essential to the planning, implementation, and evaluation of public health practice. |
| Intentional Injuries | Injuries that are purposefully inflicted by a person on himself or herself or on another person. Examples include suicide or attempted suicide, homicide, rape, assault, domestic abuse, elder abuse, and child abuse. |
| Interventions | Specific prevention measures or activities designed to meet a program objective. Categories include education/behavior change, enforcement/legislation, engineering/technology, and economic incentives. |
| Morbidity | Number of nonfatally injured or disabled people. Usually expressed as a rate, meaning the number of nonfatal injuries in a certain population in a given time period divided by the size of the population. |
| Mortality | Deaths caused by injury and disease. Usually expressed as a rate, meaning the number of deaths in a certain population in a given time period divided by the size of the population. |
| Objectives | Specific, time-limited, and quantifiable statements that summarize an expected result of an intervention. |
| Outcome (impact) Objectives | State the intended effect of the program on participants or on the community in such terms as the participants' increased knowledge, changed behaviors or attitudes, or decreased injury rates. |
| Passive Interventions | Something that offers automatic protection from injury, often without requiring any conscious change of behavior by the individual; child-resistant bottles and air bags are some examples. |
| Primary Injury Prevention | Keeping an injury from occuring. |
| Process Objectives | State how a program will be implemented, describing the service to be provided, the nature of the service, and to whom it will be directed. |
| Risk Factors | Characteristics of people, behaviors, or environments that increase the chances of disease or injury. Some examples are alcohol use, poverty, or gender. |
| Secondary Injury Prevention | Reducing the effects of an injury that has already happened. |
| Unintentional Injuries | Injuries that occur without intent to harm (commonly called accidents). Some examples are motor vehicle crashes, poisonings, drownings, falls, and most burns. |
| Years of Potential Life Lost | A way of measuring and comparing the overall impact of deaths resulting from different causes. It is calculated based on a fixed age minus the age at death. Usually the fixed age is 65 or 75 or the life expectancy of the group in question. |
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