FRAMEWORK Flashcards
Department of Health vision/motto
All for health towards Health for All
WHO Strategic Priority 1:
Save Lives
WHO Strategic Priority 2:
Promote well-being
WHO Strategic Priority 3:
Protect health
WHO Strategic Priority 4:
Optimize the heath architecture
WHO Strategic Priority 5:
Use Platforms for health
Face a higher risk of complications and death
Young adolescents (10-14 age)
Major complications that account for maternal death:
-Severe bleeding
- Infections
- High blood pressure during pregnancy (Pre-eclampsia & Eclampsia)
- Complications from delivery
- Unsafe abortion
Factors that prevent women from receiving care during pregnancy
- poverty
- distance to facilities
- lack of information
- inadequate and poor quality services
- cultural beliefs and practices
Study of the way such disorder occur
Genetics
Study of chromosomes by light microscopy and the method by which chromosomal aberrations are identified
Cytogenetics
Basic unit of heredity that determine both the physical and cognitive characteristics of people
Genes
Composed of segments of DNA
Chromosomes
Refer to his or her outward appearance or observable charateristics or the expression of genes
Phenotype
Refer to his or her actual gene composition
Genotype
Normal genome
46XX, 46XY
Short-arm disorders
Letter p
Long-arm disorders
Letter q
Result of missing portion of chromosome 5, abnormal cry which sounds like the sound of a cat
Cri-du-chat syndrome
Has two like genes for a trait - two healthy genes
Homozygous
Has one genes for a trait - one is unhealthy
Heterozygous
A progressive neurologic disease, characterized by loss of motor control
Huntington disease
A disorder where bones are exceedingly brittle
Osteogenesis imperfecta
A disorder of connective tissue that result in an individual being thinner and taller than usual and perhaps with associated heat aortic defects
Marfan syndrome