Health Flashcards
Name some health indicators?
Life expectancy, death rate and infant morality rate.
Define health
Your physical, ,mental, and social well being and the a sense of disease.
Where is life expectancy highest?
Wealthier countries such as USA, UK and Canada.
Define morbidity
Illness
What are the morbidity indicators?
Prevalence and incidence
What’s prevalence
It’s a morbidity indicator. It is the total number of cases in a population at a particular time.
What’s is incidence?
It’s is a morbidity indicator. It is the number of new cases in a population during a time period.
Give some example of infectious diseases and where are they most common?
Malaria, HIV/AIDS, TB
They are most common in poorer countries.
Give some examples of non-communicable diseases and where are they most common?
Cancer and heart disease.
More common in wealthier countries.
Where are here high rates and low rates of TB (infectious diseases)?
In Poorer counties, such as Sub-Saharan Africa there are high rate. In wealthier countries such as USA, UK and Australia there are low rates.
Give reasons for the high infectious disease morbidity in poorer countries
Malnutrition reduces the ability to fight off disease. Lack of clean water and sanitation. Overcrowded conditions. Poor access to health care. Limited health education.
What are the morbidity patterns of non-communicable diseases?
There’s highest great cancer morbidity in MEDCs such as UK, USA and Australia. There are low rates in LEDCs such as Africa and Asia.
Give reasons for high non-communicable disease morbidity in wealthier countries?
Higher proportion of elderly due to high life expectancy.
Unhealthy lifestyles factors, the risk of getting some diseases increases if your overweight, eat unhealthy food or lack exercise.
Define mortality
Death
What’s the mortality rate?
How many people die in a population over a period of time .
