Health - definitions

Question 1

Define health

Answer 1

A state of complete physical, mental and social well-being without merely the absence of disease or infirmity

Question 2

Mortality

Answer 2

The state of being subject to death

Question 3

Morbidity

Answer 3

The state of being ill or diseased, or the ocurence of a disease or condition that damages health and quality of life.

Question 4

Attack rate

Answer 4

The number of cases of a disease diagnosed in an area, divided by the total population, over the period of an epidemic.

Question 5

Case mortality rate

Answer 5

The number of people dying from a disease divided by the number of those diagnosed as having the disease.

Question 6

Chronic

Answer 6

A long lasting condition which could possibly last a life time

Question 7

Crude birth rate

Answer 7

The number of live births per thousand of the population per year

Question 8

Crude death rate

Answer 8

The number of deaths ketch thousand of the population per year

Question 9

Endemic

Answer 9

There are constantly present low levels of infection

Question 10

Epidemic

Answer 10

a widespread occurrence of an infectious disease in a community at a particular time.

Question 11

Pandemic

Answer 11

An infection which is prevalent over a whole country or over the world.

Question 12

Famine

Answer 12

A decline in the access to food, not necessarily the absence of food.

Question 13

Infant mortality rate

Answer 13

The number of deaths of children under the age of one, expressed per thousand live births per year.

Question 14

Age specific death rate

Answer 14

This refers to the total number of deaths per 1000 people of a given age.

Question 15

DALY’S

Answer 15

Disability adjusted life years - healthy years lost due to the premature mortality or living in a state of less than full health.

Question 16

Diseases of affluence

Answer 16

Diseases that are though to be as a result of increasing wealth within a society.

Question 17

Health care

Answer 17

The prevention, treatment and management of illness and the preservation of mental health through the services offered by the medical, nursing and allied healht professions.

Question 18

Malnutrition

Answer 18

ill health caused by a diet deficiency, either in amount (quantity) or balance (quality).

Question 19

Poverty

Answer 19

Is the deprivation of common necessities that determine quality of life, such as food, clothing, shelter and drinking water.

Question 20

Periodic hunger

Answer 20

Short term lack of food resulting from crop failure.

Question 21

Undernourishment

Answer 21

Those who receive less than 90% of the minimum dietary intake over a long-term time period, they lack energy for an active and productive life and are susceptible to infectious diseases.