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Health Science 130 final
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Health Care
Undergraduate 1
12/14/2012

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Top three causes of death in 1900
Definition
Pneumonia, tuberculosis, Diaherria
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Pellegra
Definition
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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Lyme
Definition
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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Disease Warriors
Definition
Pollio Vaccine spread all over india, eradicated the disease. Vaccines promote the body to create antibodies and T cells
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Public Health
Definition
need science and creativity to create solutions. On a population basis.
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Endemic
Definition
local population
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Pandemic
Definition
world wide spread of disease
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Epidemic
Definition
local outbreak of disease
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4 Exposure
Definition
infectious agents, behaviours, social and environmental factors, intrinsic characteristic of individuals.
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Material Factors
Definition
exposure to positive and negatives over lifecourse are indicators of advantages and disadvantages to stress influence
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Social comparison
Definition
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
Definition
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
Definition
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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Obesity prevalence
Definition
increase and age increases except after 64
24% adults 9% children
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Anorexia
Definition
obsessive desire to be thinner, extreme dieting
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Bulimia
Definition
binge eating followed by purging or using laxatives
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Binge Eating
Definition
eating a lot even when not hungry about every 2 hours
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Prevalence of Clinical Eating Disorders
Definition
6-10% in highschool kids
1-5% in highschool boys
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Determinants of Health
Definition
socio-economic environment, physical environment, health services, healthy childhood development, gender, culture, biology and genetic endowment
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Western Science
Definition
based on principles of repeatability and predictability, open to falsification, explain with facts
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Aboriginal Culture
Definition
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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Case Report
Definition
detailed description of case usually by a doctor
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Cross-sectional
Definition
group chosen to represent society then asked about exposures and in the disease is present or not
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Case control
Definition
look back in time at exposures at a group of people with the disease
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Prospective cohort
Definition
follow people over time, their exposures and if the get a disease or not.
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Sex
Definition
Biology, multi dimensional biological construct
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Gender
Definition
human invention, social construct
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Parsons Sick Role
Definition
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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Criticism to Sick Role
Definition
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
Definition
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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Sensitivity
Definition
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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Specificity
Definition
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
Definition
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
Definition
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
Definition
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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Science
Definition
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
Definition
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
Definition
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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Illness
Definition
the perception of ill health based on a persons response to particular symptoms that can not be directly observed
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Disease
Definition
diagnosable pathologies, abnormal functioning may/ may not cause discomfort or distress.
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Biomedical Model
Definition
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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Stress
Definition
the bodies response to tough life decisions and events
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General Adaptation Syndrome
Definition
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
Definition
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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Disease and Stress
Definition
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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