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The terms compliance and adherence are interchangeable among healthcare practitioners, but there are numerous differences between the two terms. Adherence involves patients actively choosing to follow the prescribed treatments as they are responsible for their own health, whereas compliance usually indicates passive actions whereby the patients follow a list of orders from the physician.
Nov 23, 2020 · 4. Epidemic vs. Pandemic vs. Endemic. The difference between an epidemic and a pandemic is one of degree: An epidemic occurs when there’s an increase in disease cases above normal in a limited population or area (for instance, a single country). An epidemic can become a pandemic if it spreads to several different countries or continents.
Nov 18, 2022 · In a pandemic context, public health compliance behaviors refer not only to daily behaviors such as eating healthy and regularly exercising but also to a series of measures to prevent and control diseases, including washing hands, wearing masks, and maintaining physical distance (Wismans et al., 2020). These policy measures for disease prevention and control are the public health behaviors ...
- Shuwei Zhang, Yan Wang, Yujie Wei
- Front Psychol. 2022; 13: 1040218.
- 10.3389/fpsyg.2022.1040218
- 2022
Abstract. The purpose of this essay is to explore the meanings of the widely used terms compliance and adherence and the less widely used term concordance and to raise questions about the appropriateness of these terms when used to describe individuals' or groups' health-related behaviors. Discussion focuses on how recognition of how the ...
- Jacqueline Fawcett
- 2020
In epidemiology, the term pandemic is defined as ‘an epidemic occurring over a very wide area, crossing international boundaries, and usually affecting a large number of people’ . This definition does not refer to virology, immunity, or severity, as noted by Heath Kelly , who argued that the definition of a pandemic cannot be elusive. The ...
Mar 26, 2020 · Coronavirus is used as a kind of shorthand these days in some media reports, and the new strain is more accurately called the novel coronavirus. The illness caused by the virus is called COVID-19 ...
Feb 19, 2021 · The WHO defines pandemics, epidemics, and endemic diseases based on a disease's rate of spread. Thus, the difference between an epidemic and a pandemic isn't in the severity of the disease, but the degree to which it has spread. A pandemic cuts across international boundaries, as opposed to regional epidemics.
