Chapter

Question 1

personal, social, economic and environmental factors that determine a person’s health

Answer 1

determinants of health

Question 2

The group of factors that consists of innate features, sex and age

Answer 2

first group factors

Question 3

factors that relate to personal choices around lifestyle like nutrition, smoking, alcohol consumption, etc

Answer 3

second group factors

Question 4

Social factors, culture and support networks

Answer 4

third group factors

Question 5

living and working conditions, for example: sanitation, access to health services and clean drinking water

Answer 5

fourth group factors

Question 6

factors related to society like culture, education, environment and socioeconomic factors. Not to be confused with other groups, this group has factors that are largely controlled by the government

Answer 6

fith group factors

Question 7

A determinate of health that is related to knowledge of good health, opportunities to improve socioeconomic status and better outcomes for an individual’s children

Answer 7

education

Question 8

A determinate of health that shapes opinions of health, how much an individual seeks health services, and health practices

Answer 8

culture

Question 9

A determinate of health that is related to safety, pollution, drinking water and socioeconomic status.

Answer 9

environment

Question 10

How does the government’s opinion on health change an individual’s health?

Answer 10

the more the government focuses and promotes factors related to health and health care, the healthier the population will be

Question 11

What is the benefit of universal health care?

Answer 11

populations with universal health care are more likely to be healthier

Question 12

The way that families nourish and care for infant and young children. This begins before the child is born and can be slowed by poor health

Answer 12

child development

Question 13

What is the healths factors that can stop or prevent child development?

Answer 13

poor nutrition, dropping out of school, poverty, abuse and discrimination

Question 14

A determinate of health that influences the extent that illness effects a population or an individual

Answer 14

social factors

Question 15

Cause of health that is related to the natural environment, macro issues (group 5) and inequalities (macro/societal level)

Answer 15

root causes

Question 16

causes of health that are related to the build environment and social context (meso level)

Answer 16

underlying causes

Question 17

causes of health that are related to life circumstances, behavioural factors and psychological factors. (micro level)

Answer 17

proximal causes

Question 18

An indicator that helps understand how socioeconomic factors affect an infant and the development of the health care system.

Answer 18

infant mortality rate

Question 19

How much disease cost a country in loss of productivity or cost on the country due to disease

Answer 19

burden of disease

Question 20

An indicator that helps understand the avaliblity and access of healthcare in a region

Answer 20

perinatal (neonatal) mortality rate

Question 21

An indicator that reflects disease in a community and general health status of a community. Also socio economic conditions

Answer 21

child mortality rate

Question 22

An indicator that reflects a lack of health care services. Very rare in developed countries.

Answer 22

maternal mortality rate

Question 23

What is the factor that has the strongest corriclation to health status

Answer 23

income group

Question 24

How long a person is expected to live if they are born that year. Reflects health status of country as a whole

Answer 24

life expectancy at birth

Question 25

Which health indicator is the best to measure health status of a country?

Answer 25

neonatal morality rate because it measures the deaths of the most vulnerable in a population (before 1 month)

Question 26

Sickness in any form

Answer 26

morbidity

Question 27

death

Answer 27

mortality

Question 28

A condition that causes a person to be sick or die, but the period of sickness before death is quite long

Answer 28

disability

Question 29

the number of people currently suffering or have a condition

Answer 29

prevalence

Question 30

the proportion of a population with a certain condition at any time

Answer 30

point prevalence

Question 31

how many people get a disease, or the flow of new cases

Answer 31

incidence rate

Question 32

Interventions that occur before incidence

Answer 32

primary prevention

Question 33

identifying a disease at the earliest point possible

Answer 33

secondary prevention

Question 34

Managing a disease post diagnosis

Answer 34

teritary prevention

Question 35

the system that governments uses to collect data on health records

Answer 35

vital regression

Question 36

What are the four determinate of health (according to lecture)

Answer 36

individual, physical/environment, social, and health services