Definitions

Question 1

ADL (activities of daily living)

Answer 1

Daily self-care activities. Used as a functional measuremant of disability.

Question 2

Birth rate

Answer 2

Number of live births in a population over a given period of time

Question 3

Clinical Effectiveness

Answer 3

The degree to which an organisation is ensuring ‘best practice’, based on evidence of effectiveness.

Question 4

Coping

Answer 4

The process of managing stress

Question 5

Critical Appraisal

Answer 5

Careful and critical examination of research to judge its trustworthiness, value, and relevance.

Question 6

Culture

Answer 6

A system of shared ideas, concepts, rules, and meanings that underlie and are expressed in the way that people live

Question 7

Death rate

Answer 7

Summary rate based on the proportion of the population that dies in a specific time period

Question 8

Disease

Answer 8

A physiological or psychological dysfunction. Unlike an illness it is the same biological process in every sufferer

Question 9

Disease prevention

Answer 9

Pass

Question 10

Ethnicity

Answer 10

A group of people defined by cultural practices and outlooks. Such things as common language, customs, beliefs, and traditions.

Question 11

Gender

Answer 11

Think more about the social implications. Different behaviours and interactions etc.

Question 12

Hazard

Answer 12

Something with the potential to cause harm

Question 13

Health promotion

Answer 13

The process of enabling people to take control over, and to improve, their health.

Question 14

Illness

Answer 14

A persons experience or subjective notion of being ill.

Question 15

Incidence

Answer 15

Number of new cases of a disease in a population in a given period of time. Tells a lot about trends in causation and aetiology.

Question 16

Infant mortality rate

Answer 16

Rate of deaths of children

Question 17

Life expectancy at birth

Answer 17

Average number of years a newborn can be expected to live if current trends continue

Question 18

Morbidity rate

Answer 18

Incidence of non fatal cases of disease in a given period

Question 19

Perinatal mortality rate

Answer 19

All stillbirths and deaths in the first week of life as a proportion of all live and still births over a time period

Question 20

Prevalence

Answer 20

Number of people in a population with a specific disease at a point in time or a defined period of time.

Question 21

Quality of life

Answer 21

General wellbeing of individuals and societies.

Question 22

QUALY

Answer 22

Measure of disease burden , assessing both quality and quantity of life. It is used to determine whether certain treatments are cost effective.

Question 23

Race

Answer 23

A group of people linked by biological or genetic factors

Question 24

Risk

Answer 24

Likelihood of harm occurring

Question 25

Self-efficacy

Answer 25

A person’s belief in their ability to succeed in or manage a situation

Question 26

Sex

Answer 26

Biological characteristics of men and women

Question 27

Social class

Answer 27

Social stratification based on occupation

Question 28

Which social class would a skilled manual worker be in?

Answer 28

III(b)

Question 29

Which social class would an unskilled worker be in?

Answer 29

V

Question 30

Which social class would a professional fall into?

Answer 30

I

Question 31

Into which social class would someone of a managerial or technical occupation be placed?

Answer 31

II

Question 32

Which social class is made up of skilled non-manual workers?

Answer 32

III(a)

Question 33

Which social class is comprised of partly skilled manual labourers?

Answer 33

IV

Question 34

Stress

Answer 34

The body’s response to demands/pressure placed on it

Question 35

The sick role

Answer 35

The social role of temporary, medically sanctioned sickness