Global Health Flashcards
1
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What is health?
A
A state of complete physical, social and mental well-being
2
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What is mortality?
A
Mortality is death - measured by death rate and infant mortality rate, expressed at x/1000 people per year
3
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What is prevalence rate?
A
Number of eases/population
4
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What is the incidence rate?
A
How fast it spreads
5
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What is a non-communicable disease?
A
A medical condition or disease that is non-infections and non-transmissible between people
6
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What is the DMT?
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How population changes over time related with economic development
7
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What is the Epidemiological transition model?
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- The idea that the man cause of mortality changes from infectious diseases to non-communicable diseases over time
8
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What is stage 1 of the ETM?
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- Age of pestilence and famine
- High number of deaths from infectious diseases
- Life expectancy: 50 years
- E.g. Angola
9
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What is stage 2 of the ETM?
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- Age of receding pandemics
- Due to better conditions and healthcare, infectious disease deaths fall
- Life expectancy: 60 years
- E.g. Haiti
10
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What is stage 3 of the ETM?
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- Age of degenerative and man-made diseases
- Non communicable diseases replace infectious diseases as main cause of death
- Life expectancy: 70 years
- E.g. Russia
11
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What is stage 4 of the ETM?
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- Delay of degenerative diseases
- Non communicable diseases delayed or prevented due to better treatment
- Life expectancy: 80 yeares
- E.g. UK
