Health concepts Flashcards
1
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Lifecourse
A
refers to an approach developed in the 1960s for analyzing people’s lives within structural, social, and cultural contexts.
The life course approach examines an individual’s life history and sees, for example, how early events influence future decisions and events such as marriage and divorce, or disease incidence etc.
2
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Voluntary sector
A
social activity undertaken by organizations that are not-for-profit and non-governmental.
aka third sector
3
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What is iference?
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When prevalence is calculated from a sample then used to estimate the prevalence in a population
4
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What is a parameter
A
Property of a population
5
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What can interquartile range be used for?
A
Measuring spread of discrete, continuous and ordered variables
