Health and Health Inequalities Flashcards
1
Q
What is health?
A
The state of an organism with respect to functioning disease and abnormality at any given time
2
Q
What is the World Health Organization’s definition of health?
A
A state of complete well being physical, social, and mental, and not merely the absence of disease or infirmity
3
Q
Is health a quantifiable measurement
A
Health
4
Q
Is the white life expectancy larger or smaller than that of African Americans?
A
Larger
5
Q
How did life expectancies change between 1900 and 2014
A
they went up
6
Q
What is the US’s ranking in life expectancy in OECD countries for males?
A
76.4
7
Q
What is the US’s ranking in life expectancy in OECD countries for females?
A
81.2
8
Q
Infant mortality between white and African American?
A
4.9,11.0
9
Q
US Infant Mortality rate by country
A
25th
