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Social and Behavioral Sciences in Public Health Study Guide

This guide offers essential knowledge for academic writing and APA 7 citation. Learn to craft strong thesis statements, structure papers effectively, and format citations correctly. Covers formal writing, outlining, introductions, conclusions, and the specifics of APA 7 in-text and reference list entries. Ideal for students and researchers in social sciences.

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Communicable Disease Transmission and Public Health Data

Introduction to Communicable Diseases

An overview of communicable diseases, including their transmission, differences from infectious diseases, and the impact of epidemics, pandemics, and endemicity on the burden of disease.

  • Communicable diseases
  • Infectious diseases
  • Burden of disease
  • Route of transmission
  • Asymptomatic transmission
  • Immunizations
  • Epidemic
  • Pandemic
  • Endemic

Communicable Disease Transmission and Modern Koch's Postulates

This content covers modern Koch's postulates, factors affecting the ease of communicable disease transmission, and various methods of human disease transmission.

  • Modern Koch's Postulates
  • Epidemiological association
  • Asymptomatic transmission
  • Reproduction ratio (R0)
  • Inherent transmissibility
  • Methods of transmission
  • Zoonotic diseases
  • Airborne transmission
  • Fomites

Public Health Tools for Communicable Diseases

Public health tools to address communicable diseases include barrier protections, immunizations, screening, case-finding, and treatment to prevent transmission and achieve eradication.

  • Barrier protections
  • Isolation
  • Quarantine
  • Immunizations
  • Passive immunity
  • Inactivated vaccines
  • Live vaccines
  • Herd immunity
  • Screening
  • Case-finding
  • Primary screening
  • Secondary screening
  • Tertiary screening
  • Wastewater surveillance
  • Epidemiological treatment
  • Disease eradication
  • Influenza mutation

Public Health Data and Communications

Methods for collecting, compiling, and presenting health information to address how we perceive, combine, and use information to make decisions.

  • Health communication
  • Public health surveillance
  • Population health status measures
  • Infant mortality
  • Life expectancy
  • Under-5 mortality
  • DALYs
  • Informed consent
  • Shared decision-making

Public Health Data Collection and Measurement

Public health surveillance collects population level data from sources including vital statistics, surveys, and sentinel monitoring to measure population health status.

  • Public health surveillance
  • Qualitative data
  • Quantitative data
  • Vital Statistics
  • National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey (NHANES)
  • Behavioral Risk Factor Surveillance System (BRFSS)
  • Self Reporting
  • Sentinel monitoring
  • Syndromic Surveillance
  • Population health status measures
  • Infant mortality rate
  • Health-adjusted life expectancy (HALE)
  • Disability-adjusted life year
  • Global burden of disease (GBD)

Effective Display and Perception of Health Information

Methods for effectively displaying information through graphical presentation and factors that affect how we perceive public health information.

  • X-Y graphics
  • Geometric graphics
  • Pie charts
  • Health literacy
  • Dread effect
  • Unfamiliarity effect
  • Uncontrollability effect

Social Sciences, Health Policy, and Academic Writing

Social and Behavioral Sciences in Public Health

This topic explores how social systems, socioeconomic status, culture, and religion affect health and the theories used to change individual behavior.

  • Socioeconomic status (SES)
  • Social determinants of health
  • Health and healthcare disparities
  • Health equity
  • Downstream, mainstream, and upstream factors
  • Health Belief Model
  • Stages of Change Model
  • Theory of Planned Behavior
  • Social Cognitive Theory
  • Diffusion of Innovation
  • Social-Ecological Theory
  • Social systems
  • Social justice

Social Behavioral Approaches to Health Behavior

This topic explores how individual health behaviors can be changed through theories, models, and levels of influence.

  • Behavioral change
  • Substitution
  • Social determinants of health
  • Downstream factors
  • Mainstream factors
  • Upstream factors
  • Theory
  • Model
  • Intrapersonal level
  • Interpersonal level
  • Population and community level
  • Stages of Change Model
  • Health Belief Model
  • Behavioral economics
  • Social Marketing

The PRECEDE-PROCEED Framework Application

The PRECEDE-PROCEED framework provides a structure to design and evaluate health education and health promotion programs using a diagnostic planning process followed by an implementation and evaluation process.

  • PRECEDE-PROCEED Framework
  • Social Assessment
  • Epidemiological Assessment
  • Behavioral and Environmental Assessment
  • Educational and Organizational Assessment
  • Administrative and Policy Assessment
  • Implementation
  • Process Evaluation
  • Impact Evaluation
  • Outcome Evaluation

Health Status Measures and Information Quality

This topic covers Disability-Adjusted Life years (DALY) measures, evaluating the quality of health information, and approaches to decision-making in clinical settings.

  • Disability-Adjusted Life years
  • Communicable diseases
  • Noncommunicable diseases
  • Health Literacy
  • Incomplete information
  • Misinformation
  • Disinformation
  • Informed consent
  • Shared decision making
  • Clinical decision-making

Health Policy Law and Ethics

This content examines market and social justice characteristics, the legal right to health care, and bioethical principles used to address public health issues and research.

  • Market justice
  • Social justice
  • Medical resource allocation
  • Universal Declaration of Human Rights
  • Emergency care rights
  • Bioethical principles
  • Respect for persons
  • Beneficence
  • Justice
  • Institutional Review Boards
  • Belmont Report

Health Policy and Social Justice

Health policy involves private and public entities working towards improved health and reducing health inequities through a health in all policies approach.

  • Health in all policies approach
  • Health inequities
  • Market Justice
  • Social Justice
  • Public and private entities
  • Evidence-based national objectives

Academic Writing and APA 7 Guidelines

Guidelines for academic writing including formal writing style, developing a thesis statement, outlining, and paper formatting.

  • Academic writing
  • Formal writing style
  • Thesis statement development
  • Paper outlining
  • APA 7 in-text citations
  • Introductory paragraph components
  • Concluding paragraph components
  • General formatting guidelines

Introduction to APA 7 Style

An introduction to APA 7 style for social sciences including in-text citations and reference list basics.

  • APA Style
  • Author-Date Citation System
  • Paraphrasing
  • Direct Quote
  • Parenthetical Citation
  • Narrative Citation
  • In-Text Citations for Multiple Authors
  • Reference List Basics
  • Hanging Indent
  • Formatting Books
  • Formatting Journal Articles

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