Chapter 1

Question 1

What did the world health organizations 1948 describe health as?

Answer 1

State of being complete physical, mental, and socially well-being and not merely the absence of disease and infirmity

Question 2

What is healthy people 2030?

Answer 2

A society where people can reach their full potential and health and well-being across the lifespan

Question 3

What are the healthy people 2030 goals for health rate?

Answer 3

• Promotes health lifestyles/ behaviors
  -Promote good health for people
  -Achieve health equality and eliminate unfairness
• Attain lives free of preventable disease, disability, injury and premature death

Question 4

What is physiology?

Answer 4

Study of body function

Question 5

What is pathophysiology ?

Answer 5

• Study of bodys response to dysfunction or disease
  or
  -Study of functional structural changes in body cell, tissue, organ and effects it has on the whole body
  -Pathophysiology is the mechanistic study of disease

Question 6

What is a disease ?

Answer 6

Acute or chronic illness that you were born with or acquire which causes physiological disfunction in one or more body system.

Question 7

What are aspects apart of the disease process?

Answer 7

-Etiology
-Pathogenesis
-Morphologic changes
-Clinical manifestations
- Diagnosis
-Clinical course

Question 8

What is etiology?

Answer 8

The cause or causes of a disease

Question 9

What are etiologic factors?

Answer 9

-Biologic agents
-Physical forces
-Chemical agents
-Nutritional excesses or deficits

Question 10

What are factors affecting adaptation to stressors?

Answer 10

-Age
-Health status
-Psychosocial resources
-Rapidity with which the need to adapt occurs
- Availability of adaptive responses
-Ability of the body to select the most appropriate responses

Question 11

What is diagnosis ?

Answer 11

the identification of the nature of an illness or other problem by examination of the symptoms.

Question 12

What is reliability ?

Answer 12

As youre observing, you get the same results after repeating it

Question 13

What is validity ?

Answer 13

What an instrument measures and how well it measures

Question 14

What is sensitivity and specificity ?

Answer 14

How well an observation or test identifies people with or without a disease.

Question 15

What is predictive value?

Answer 15

When a observation or test results is able to predict the existence of a disease or condition

Question 16

** Disease frequency
What is a disease case?

Answer 16

It can be an existing case
or
the number of new episodes of a specific illness

Question 17

**Disease frequency
What is incidence ?

Answer 17

Number of new cases in a population at risk during a specific time

Question 18

**Disease frequency
What is prevalence?

Answer 18

A measure of a disease that exist in a population.

Question 19

what is epidemiology?

Answer 19

Analysis of factors that affect the health and illness of populations

Question 20

What is morbidity?

Answer 20

State of having a specific illness or condition
and describes the effects an illness has on a persons life

Question 21

What is mortality ?

Answer 21

Number of deaths that occur in a population

Question 22

What are 3 levels of prevention?

Answer 22

1.) Primary prevention
2.) Secondary prevention
3.)Tertiary prevention

Question 23

What is primary prevention?

Answer 23

Removing risk factors, so disease does not occur.

Question 24

What is secondary prevention?

Answer 24

Detecting disease when its still curable

Question 25

What is tertiary prevention?

Answer 25

Preventing disease from escalating and reducing complications of disease

Question 26

What is evidence based practice?

Answer 26

Using evidence to make decisions about how to care for different patients