Health

Question 1

What is health?

Answer 1

Your physical, mental and social well being and the absence of disease

Question 2

What is the HLE

Answer 2

Healthy life expectancy- the number of years a newborn child is expected to live in full full without major disease

Question 3

Morbidity

Answer 3

The state of being ill or diseased, or the occurrence of a disease or condition that decreases quality of life.

Question 4

What are the morbidity indicators ?

Answer 4

Prevalence- the total number of cases currently in the population at 1 time
Incidence- the number of new cases reported at a certain time

Question 5

Reasons for high communicable disease in LDC’s

Answer 5

Malnutrition 
Lack of clean water
Poor sanitation - link to education 
Overcrowding 
Limited access to doctors 
Medicine is expensive

Question 6

Reasons for high non-communicable disease is mdc’s?

Answer 6

Sedentary lifestyles
Unhealthy lifestyle- poor diet
More old people
Alcohol and smoking

Question 7

Morality

Answer 7

Death. Normally accompanied by cause of death

Question 8

Organisation that improved health?

Answer 8

WHO- works with governments in most countries to eradicate disease.
Eg- they run a programme of vaccinations to eradicate polio

Question 9

Why is it difficult to improve health care in LDC’s?

Answer 9

Lower income- less spending on health
Money investing in treatment rather than prevention- education and vaccination
Rely on aid- short term

Question 10

How does the MDC’s prevent disease?

Answer 10

Vaccines- MMR
Health awareness campaigns- Change 4 life
Providing support services- Stop Smoking
Easily diagnosis- breast cancer screening

Question 11

Organisation that improved health?

Answer 11

WHO- works with governments in most countries to eradicate disease.
Eg- they run a programme of vaccinations to eradicate polio

Question 12

Why is it difficult to improve health care in LDC’s?

Answer 12

Lower income- less spending on health
Money investing in treatment rather than prevention- education and vaccination
Rely on aid- short term

Question 13

How does the MDC’s prevent disease?

Answer 13

Vaccines- MMR
Health awareness campaigns- Change 4 life
Providing support services- Stop Smoking
Easily diagnosis- breast cancer screening

Question 14

TNC’s?

Answer 14

Companies that operate in more than 1 country. Some are very large, have huge budgets, and powerful political influence.

Question 15

How does age affect health?

Answer 15

Older people- Alzheimer’s, Parkinson’s, arthritis and heart disease
Young people- sexual health- sti’s

Question 16

How does job type affect health?

Answer 16

Manual job- secondary- higher risk of accidents- back pain
Exposure to hazardous substances- asthma
Non-manual- stress and anxiety
Also less exercise at desk jobs

Question 17

How does education affect health?

Answer 17

More educated- 
Balanced diet
Drinking water 
Regular exercise 
Negetive affects of TAD

Question 18

How does the environment affect health?

Answer 18

Pollution- respiratory disease

Question 19

How is age distributed in UK

Answer 19

Old people living in rural and coastal area- Devon

Question 20

How is education distributed in UK?

Answer 20

In 2003 18.8% of working age people in North East had no qualifications contrast to South west- 10.7%

Question 21

How is gender affecting health?

Answer 21

Women- twice as likely to suffer from arthritis, 2 times migraines
Less sport
Men- more alcohol