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| Top three causes of death in 1900 |
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| Pneumonia, tuberculosis, Diaherria |
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| caused by the manufacturing of corn, which decreases the nutrient level, more prevalent in women. Thought to be caused by a germ, but no spread when exposed to sick people |
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| more prevalent then AIDS, treatable if caught early. USA guidelines and insurance only cover up to 14 days. Those with chronic lyme are overlooked and is illegal to treat them |
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| Pollio Vaccine spread all over india, eradicated the disease. Vaccines promote the body to create antibodies and T cells |
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| need science and creativity to create solutions. On a population basis. |
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| world wide spread of disease |
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| local outbreak of disease |
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| infectious agents, behaviours, social and environmental factors, intrinsic characteristic of individuals. |
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| exposure to positive and negatives over lifecourse are indicators of advantages and disadvantages to stress influence |
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| perception of hierarchy leads to stress comparison to shame and envy, and how that effects mental health outcomes and negative behaviours |
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| Key features of Health Care |
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delivery is responsible by provinces
privately delivered, publicly financed, choose own doctor
fee-for-service funding and global budget (churches)
choice of practitioner
universal coverage applies to less then half of total expenditures. |
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| 5 factors of the Canadian Health Act |
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1)Public Administration: no profit basis, public accountability
2)Comprehensiveness: all medically nessecary services provided, except drugs to be taken at home
3)Universality: the plan must entitle everyone
4) Accessibility: reasonable access without financial barriers
5)Portability: use health care in any province |
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increase and age increases except after 64
24% adults 9% children |
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| obsessive desire to be thinner, extreme dieting |
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| binge eating followed by purging or using laxatives |
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| eating a lot even when not hungry about every 2 hours |
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| Prevalence of Clinical Eating Disorders |
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6-10% in highschool kids
1-5% in highschool boys |
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| socio-economic environment, physical environment, health services, healthy childhood development, gender, culture, biology and genetic endowment |
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| based on principles of repeatability and predictability, open to falsification, explain with facts |
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| medicine based on nature, tradition, adaptable. Not separate from religion. Disease: disruption in balance. Illness: consequence of past breaching morals. Medicine Wheel: 4 spokes mental, physical, emotional and spiritual. |
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| detailed description of case usually by a doctor |
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| group chosen to represent society then asked about exposures and in the disease is present or not |
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| look back in time at exposures at a group of people with the disease |
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| follow people over time, their exposures and if the get a disease or not. |
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| Biology, multi dimensional biological construct |
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| human invention, social construct |
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Rights:1) you are exempt from responsibilities
2) You are temporarily exempt from social responsibilities
Duties:1) You have to try an get well and resume responsibilities
2) you need to seek help and cooperate in getting better |
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focuses on acute illness
ignores phycosocial conditions, focuses on physical
medio-centric with a professionalism bias, against lay and self-care behaviour |
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| Define global epidemiology of Tuberculosis |
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35% of people are exposed. 5-10% become ill
most cases in crowded dwellings in south east asia
mortality rate is decreasing 1.5 million die every year |
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| the probability that a test correctly identifies those with a disease. # with disease who test positive/ # with disease( include false positives) |
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| the probability that the test correctly identifies those who do not have the disease: # without the disease who test negative/ # without disease( include false negatives) |
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| Definition of Epidemiology |
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| The study of the distribution and determinants of health related states in specified populations and the application of this study to control health problems |
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| Applications of Epidemiology |
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1) Identifying the cause of a new syndrome
2)Assessing risk of exposure
3) Determining if treatment "x" is effective
4)Identifying Health services use and needs
5)Identifying practical prevention strategies |
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| Ottawa Charter for Health Promotion |
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1)Build healthy public policy
2) Create supportive environments
3)Strengthen community action
4)Develop personal skills
5)Reorient health systems |
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| The process of observation, explanation, experimentation and prediction that results in a systemized body of knowledge about a particular phenomena or a group of phenomena attained by verifiable means |
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| World Health Organization Definition |
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| Health is a state of complete mental, physical and social well-being not merely the absence of disease or infirmity |
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| 5 Paradigms of Health Illness and Disease |
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Structural Functionalist: social roles influence behaviour
Conflict: medical profession determines what is a disease
Symbolic Interactionalist: peoples experiences
Feminist: how is looks from a women's perspective
Sociology of Body: how the body interacts with the society and culture |
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| the perception of ill health based on a persons response to particular symptoms that can not be directly observed |
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| diagnosable pathologies, abnormal functioning may/ may not cause discomfort or distress. |
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1)Mind-Body dualism: mental states influence body
2)Physical Reductionism: see the smallest of what is happening
3)Specific Etiology: changes in body cause by a pathogen
4)Machine Metaphor: body is looked at as a machine
5) Regimen and control: avoiding disease by taking care of body |
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| the bodies response to tough life decisions and events |
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| General Adaptation Syndrome |
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Alarm: recognizes stressor and activates flight or fight releasing HPA
Resistance: removal of symptoms, reverse of alarm phase
Exhaustion: bodys resources are depleted and unable to normally function |
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| Negatives of Stress to the body |
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| Increase in blood pressure and heart rate. sweating, constriction of blood vessels, neurochemical imbalances, variations in heart rhythms, suppression of cellular immune function |
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| 50% increase in the chance of CVD, connection with depression, stress and cancer are inconsistent, affects those with HIV/AIDS by decreasing the immune system |
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