Global patterns of health, disease and death

Question 1

Morbidity definition

Answer 1

Rate of disease within a population

Question 2

Mortality rate definition

Answer 2

Number of people who die within a population over a given period of time

Question 3

Health definition

Answer 3

Physical, mental and social well being with the absence of disease

Question 4

Prevalence definition

Answer 4

Total number of cases in a population

Question 5

Incidence definition

Answer 5

Total number of new cases in a population

Question 6

What is the epidemiological transition model?

Answer 6

Changing mortality patterns

Question 7

Stage 1 of the EDM

Answer 7

Age of pestilence and famine
High birth rate, high death rate
Deaths from communicable diseases

Question 8

Stage 2 of the EDM

Answer 8

Age of receding pandemics
Death rate falling, high birth rate still
Deaths from communicable diseases falling

Question 9

Stage 3 of the EDM

Answer 9

Stage of degenerative and man made diseases
Birth rate and death rates falling
NCDs replace communicable diseases as the main cause of deaths

Question 10

Stage 4 of the EDM

Answer 10

Delay of degenerative diseases
Low birth and death rates
NCDs delayed by treatment