{"id":209,"date":"2019-10-22T17:28:01","date_gmt":"2019-10-22T17:28:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/courses.lumenlearning.com\/suny-public-health-in-pharmacy-practice\/?post_type=front-matter&p=209"},"modified":"2019-10-22T17:28:01","modified_gmt":"2019-10-22T17:28:01","slug":"glossary","status":"publish","type":"front-matter","link":"https:\/\/courses.lumenlearning.com\/suny-public-health-in-pharmacy-practice-instructor\/front-matter\/glossary\/","title":{"raw":"Glossary","rendered":"Glossary"},"content":{"raw":"Note: references for definitions can be found in chapters where the concepts are utilized<\/em>\r\n\r\nCross cultural care:<\/strong> learning how to transcend one's own culture in order to form a positive therapeutic alliance with patients from other cultures\r\n\r\nCulture:<\/strong> the integrated pattern of human behaviors that includes thoughts, communications, languages, practices, beliefs, values, customs, courtesies, rituals, manners of interacting and roles, relationships and expected behaviors of a racial, ethnic, religious or social group; and the ability to transmit the above to succeeding generations\r\n\r\nDisaster:<\/strong> a sudden, calamitous event that seriously disrupts the functioning of a community or society, causing human, material, and economic or environmental loses that exceed the community\u2019s or society\u2019s ability to cope using its own resources\r\n\r\nEpidemiology:<\/strong> the study of the distribution and determinants of health-related states or events in specified populations, and the application of this study to the control of health problems\r\n\r\nEquity:<\/strong> the absence of avoidable or remediable differences among groups of people, whether those groups are defined socially, economically, demographically, or geographically\r\n\r\nGlobal North:<\/strong> a group based on a geographic and economic divide, inclusive of relatively richer countries within the global sphere; includes the United States, Canada, Europe, developed parts of Asia (Japan, Hong Kong, Singapore, South Korea and Taiwan) as well as Australia and New Zealand\r\n\r\nGlobal South:<\/strong> a group based on a geographic and economic divide, inclusive of relatively poorer countries within the global sphere; includes countries mostly located in tropical regions and in the Southern Hemisphere\r\n\r\nHealth:<\/strong> a state of complete physical, mental and social well-being and not merely the absence of disease or infirmity\r\n\r\nHealth disparities:<\/strong> a particular type of health difference that is closely linked with social, economic and\/or environmental disadvantage\r\n\r\nHealth equity:<\/strong> fair distribution of health determinants, outcomes, and resources within and between segments of the population, regardless of social standing\r\n\r\nHealth literacy:<\/strong> the degree to which individuals have the capacity to obtain, process, and understand basic health information and services needed to make appropriate health decisions\r\n\r\nHealthy People:<\/strong> a US government program from the ODPHP that identifies US health improvement priorities and sets 10-year goals and targets\r\n\r\nHerd immunity:<\/strong> the circumstance in which a sufficient proportion of the population is protected from a disease such that transmission among members is unlikely is insufficient to protect unvaccinated members\r\n\r\nInformation literacy:<\/strong> being able to recognize when information is needed and have the ability to locate, evaluate, and use effectively the needed information\r\n\r\nInterprofessional education:<\/strong> when two or more professions learn about, from and with each other to enable effective collaboration and improve health outcomes\r\n\r\nPharmacoepidemiology:<\/strong> the study of the use and effects\/side-effects of drugs in large numbers of people with the purpose of supporting the rational and cost-effective use of drugs in the population thereby improving health outcomes\r\n\r\nPreventive medicine:<\/strong> delivery of medical care that is focused on the health of individuals, communities, and defined populations in order to protect, promote, and maintain health and well-being and to prevent disease, disability, and death\r\n\r\nSocial determinants of health:<\/strong> the conditions in which individuals live, work, and play that can affect health outcomes\r\n\r\nTelepharmacy:<\/strong> the provision of services by pharmacists to patients or their caregivers through the use of technology to provide cost-effective routine and highly specialized clinical services in remote areas where the need may be greatest","rendered":"

Note: references for definitions can be found in chapters where the concepts are utilized<\/em><\/p>\n

Cross cultural care:<\/strong> learning how to transcend one’s own culture in order to form a positive therapeutic alliance with patients from other cultures<\/p>\n

Culture:<\/strong> the integrated pattern of human behaviors that includes thoughts, communications, languages, practices, beliefs, values, customs, courtesies, rituals, manners of interacting and roles, relationships and expected behaviors of a racial, ethnic, religious or social group; and the ability to transmit the above to succeeding generations<\/p>\n

Disaster:<\/strong> a sudden, calamitous event that seriously disrupts the functioning of a community or society, causing human, material, and economic or environmental loses that exceed the community\u2019s or society\u2019s ability to cope using its own resources<\/p>\n

Epidemiology:<\/strong> the study of the distribution and determinants of health-related states or events in specified populations, and the application of this study to the control of health problems<\/p>\n

Equity:<\/strong> the absence of avoidable or remediable differences among groups of people, whether those groups are defined socially, economically, demographically, or geographically<\/p>\n

Global North:<\/strong> a group based on a geographic and economic divide, inclusive of relatively richer countries within the global sphere; includes the United States, Canada, Europe, developed parts of Asia (Japan, Hong Kong, Singapore, South Korea and Taiwan) as well as Australia and New Zealand<\/p>\n

Global South:<\/strong> a group based on a geographic and economic divide, inclusive of relatively poorer countries within the global sphere; includes countries mostly located in tropical regions and in the Southern Hemisphere<\/p>\n

Health:<\/strong> a state of complete physical, mental and social well-being and not merely the absence of disease or infirmity<\/p>\n

Health disparities:<\/strong> a particular type of health difference that is closely linked with social, economic and\/or environmental disadvantage<\/p>\n

Health equity:<\/strong> fair distribution of health determinants, outcomes, and resources within and between segments of the population, regardless of social standing<\/p>\n

Health literacy:<\/strong> the degree to which individuals have the capacity to obtain, process, and understand basic health information and services needed to make appropriate health decisions<\/p>\n

Healthy People:<\/strong> a US government program from the ODPHP that identifies US health improvement priorities and sets 10-year goals and targets<\/p>\n

Herd immunity:<\/strong> the circumstance in which a sufficient proportion of the population is protected from a disease such that transmission among members is unlikely is insufficient to protect unvaccinated members<\/p>\n

Information literacy:<\/strong> being able to recognize when information is needed and have the ability to locate, evaluate, and use effectively the needed information<\/p>\n

Interprofessional education:<\/strong> when two or more professions learn about, from and with each other to enable effective collaboration and improve health outcomes<\/p>\n

Pharmacoepidemiology:<\/strong> the study of the use and effects\/side-effects of drugs in large numbers of people with the purpose of supporting the rational and cost-effective use of drugs in the population thereby improving health outcomes<\/p>\n

Preventive medicine:<\/strong> delivery of medical care that is focused on the health of individuals, communities, and defined populations in order to protect, promote, and maintain health and well-being and to prevent disease, disability, and death<\/p>\n

Social determinants of health:<\/strong> the conditions in which individuals live, work, and play that can affect health outcomes<\/p>\n

Telepharmacy:<\/strong> the provision of services by pharmacists to patients or their caregivers through the use of technology to provide cost-effective routine and highly specialized clinical services in remote areas where the need may be greatest<\/p>\n\n\t\t\t

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