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HSCI 331 exam 1

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State of complete mental, physical and social well wellbeing not merely the absence of disease or infirmity
Health
Any combination of planned learning experiences based on sound theories that provided individuals, groups and communities the opportunity to acquire information and the skills needed to make quality health decisions
Health Education
Any planned combination of educational, political, environmental, regulatory, or organizational mechanisms that support actions and conditions of living conductive to the health of individuals, groups, and communities
Health Promotion
What we do as a society to collectively assure, the conditions in which people can be healthy
Public Health
the study of the distribution and determinants of health-related states prevents (including disease), and the allocation of this study to the control of diseases and other health problems
Epidemiology
occurs regularly in a population as a matter of course
Endemic
unexpectedly large number of cases of an illness in a population
Epidemic
outbreak over a wide geographical area
Pandemic
MorBIDITY
Measures disease and illness rates
MorTALITY
measures death rates
Statistic of new cases accusing in a population given in a period of time
Incidence
existing cases in a population in a given period of time
Prevalence
These are examples of what determinant:
Age, race, genetics
Gestational endowment (biologic factors) —> non-modifiable
These are examples of what determinant:
Income/ economic status, Education, Culture/ beliefs
Social circumstances (Psychosocial factors)
These are examples of what determinant:
Clean air/ water quality
Environmental conditions
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