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Appendix D: Glossary
Pages 415-422

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... . Compassion fatigue: "A health care practitioner's diminished capacity to care as a consequence of repeated exposure to the suffering of patients, and from the knowledge of their patients' traumatic experiences" (Cavanagh et al., 2020, p.
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... Culture of health: The Robert Wood Johnson Foundation (RWJF, n.d.) defines a culture of health as "one in which good health and well-being flourish across geographic, demographic, and social sectors; fostering healthy equitable communities guides public and private decision making; and everyone has the opportunity to make choices that lead to healthy lifestyles." Disaster: Defined as a serious disruption of the functioning of a community or a society at any scale due to hazardous events interacting with conditions of exposure, vulnerability, and capacity, leading to one or more of the following: human, material, economic, and environmental losses and impacts (UNDRR, 2017)
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... /licensed vocational nurses (LVNs) : Support the health care team and work primarily under the supervision of a registered nurse (RN)
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... and downstream factors (e.g., chronic illness) , and often include a mixture of population- and individual-level factors, such as access to quality health care.
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... Nonmedical social needs that may affect health can include housing instability, food insecurity, and exposure to violence that drives health care utilization and may impact health outcomes (NASEM, 2019)
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... . Telehealth: "The use of electronic information and telecommunications technologies to support and promote long-distance clinical health care, patient and professional health-related education, and public health and health administration" (HHS, 2020)
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... 2019. Integrating social care into the delivery of health care: Moving upstream to improve the nation's health.
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... Journal of Health Care for the Poor and Underserved 9(2)


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