Environmental health and wellbeing

Question 1

What are the main determinants of health?

Answer 1

-education
-healthcare services
-work environment
-housing
-unemployment
-water and sanitation

Question 2

What is health defined as?

Answer 2

-Health is a state of complete physical, mental and social being, not merely the absence of disease or infirmity.

Question 3

what is mortality?

Answer 3

mortality is the number of people who die

Question 4

what is morbidity?

Answer 4

morbidity is the number of people who are ill

Question 5

what is well being?

Answer 5

well being is how well people feel

Question 6

what is an endemic?

Answer 6

an endemic is an infectious disease that is always prevalent in an area

Question 7

what is an Epidemic?

Answer 7

an epidemic is when a disease spreads quickly to affect large numbers of people in an area

Question 8

what is a pandemic?

Answer 8

a pandemic is an epidemic that spreads over a very large area such as a continent or the world

Question 9

What are some measures of mortality?

Answer 9

-crude death rate
-infant mortality rate
-life expectancy