Global Health & Economic Data

Question 1

A measure that combines effects of both morbidity and mortality rates thus providing a health and economic overview of diseases and injuries to individuals and populations

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Burden of Disease

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Center for Disease Control & Prevention; the U.S. government agency at the forefront of public health; mission is to prevent and control infectious and chromic diseases, injuries, workplace hazards, disabilities, and environmental health threats.

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CDC

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A bacterial infection of the small intestine that causes severe watery diarrhea, dehydration, and possibly death

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Cholera

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A composite measure of the year of life lost because of premature death & the equivalent years lost because of serious injury/disability

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Disability Adjusted Life Years (DALYs)

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Highly industrialized nations with high incomes and human capital; also known as “First World Countries”

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Developed countries

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Countries with low standards of living and a low industrial capacity; used to known as “Third World Countries”

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Developing countries

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A physical or mental incapacity, either congenital or resulting form an injury or illness, ect.

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Disability

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A disease occurring suddenly in a community, region or country in nunnery clearly in excess of normal

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Epidemic

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A medical scientist who trace the spread of health, disease, and health-related conditions through a population

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Epidemiologist

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The study of factors affecting the health and illness of populations; serves as the foundation and logic of interventions made in the interest of public health and preventive medicine

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Epidemiology

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Theory that microscopic organisms (germs) cause disease (often by infection through the air)

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Germ theory

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Gay-related immune deficiency (sometimes informally call gay plague) was an later native nam for AIDS in the early 1980s

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GRID

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Human development index; measures the average achievements in a country of the following three markers: health, education, & income; this is a composite statistic used to rank countries by level of “human development” and separate developed (high development) , developing (middle development), and underdevelopment (low development) countries

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HDI

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A collection of organized information that will give a “picture” of the overall health of a population

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Health data

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The application of statistics to the health sciences that help reveal which disease are most prevalent, which disease are of great concern, and where outbreaks are occurring

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Health Statistics

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Human immunodeficiency virus; the retrovirus that cause AIDS

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HIV

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The number of deaths or new cases of a condition, symptom, or injury that arises during a specific period of time, such as year

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Incidence

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A disease in which cancer or malignant cells are found in the tissues under the kin or mucous membranes that line the mouth, nose and anus; most common AIDS-related cancer. It causes reddish purple lesions that usually appear on the skin

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Kaposi’s sarcoma

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Least developed countries; the lowest national income of all countries

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LDCs

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Incidence of disease; rate of sickness, as in a specified community or group

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Morbidity rate

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Belief that diseases such as cholera and the Black Death were caused by noxious clouds of “bad air”.

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Miasma theory

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Death rate; the ratio of the total number of deaths to the total population

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Mortality rate

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Worldwide outbreak of a disease in numbers clearly in excess of normal; I.e. AIDS

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Pandemic

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A form of pneumonia caused by the yeast-like fungus; relatively Rae in people with normal immune systems but common among people with weakened immune systems, such as premature or severely malnourished children, the elderly, and especially AIDS patients

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Pneumocystis carinni pneumonia

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Infections caused by organisms that typically don’t produce in healthy people but affects people with damaged immune systems. These organisms attack when there’s an “opportunity” to infect

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Opportunistic infections

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Suddenly appearance of a disease in a specific geographic area

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Outbreak

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A reportable bacterial infection of the respiratory tract characterized by short, convulsive coughs that end in a whoop sound when breath is inhaled (common,h called whooping cough); mainly affects children

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Pertussis

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A measure of the proportion of persons in the population with a certain disease at a given time

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Prevalence

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(Also called Notifiable Disease in the U.S.)- disease considered to be a great public health importance (AIDS, anthrax, pertussis, West Nile virus, ect.); such disease need to be report me when they are diagnosed by doctors or laboratories. Reporting allows for the collection of statistics that his his often the disease occur, which in turn helps researches identify disease trends and track disease outbreaks.

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Reportable disease

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Was introduced in the late 1950s as an anti-nausea drug to help morning sickness in early pregnancy; realized that many of the babies whose mothers had taken this drugs developed severe birth defects. There is now an interest in using it in clinical traits for the treatment of a number of conditions and diseases, including lupus and cancer.

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Thalidomide

Question 31

Acquired immune deficiency syndrome; disease that attacks and destroys the body’s immune system, leaving the patient abnormally vulnerable to infections and many other diseases caused by the human immunodeficiency virus (HIV)

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AIDS