Health & Disease Flashcards

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<p>How is health dynamic?</p>

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<p>The definition of health of health changed from one of complete well being to one that is subjective</p>

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<p>What makes us healthy?</p>

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<p>Clean water</p>

<p>Hygeine</p>

<p>Diet</p>

<p>Affluence</p>

<p>Home</p>

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<p>What is disease?</p>

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<p>A disorder of structure or function</p>

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<p>Are structure and function related?</p>

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<p>Yes, one determines the other</p>

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<p>What is pathology?</p>

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<p>Study of disease</p>

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<p>What does pathology research?</p>

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<p>Causes, development and progress</p>

<p>Appearence</p>

<p>Explains presentation</p>

<p>Rationals for treatment</p>

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<p>How is disease dynamic?</p>

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<p>Continuously evolving</p>

<p>Observations made sparodically</p>

<p>Patients live with it</p>

<p>Influenced by treatment</p>

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<p>What does knowing about disease allow us to do?</p>

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<p>Define abnormality</p>

<p>Explain what is wrong</p>

<p>Predict outcome</p>

<p>Treat on the basis of evidence</p>

<p>Research new therapies</p>

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<p>What is diagnoses?</p>

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<p>Define abnormality consistently</p>

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<p>What is prognosis?</p>

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<p>Predict outcome</p>

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<p>What is aetiology?</p>

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<p>Cause of disease</p>

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<p>What is pathogenesis?</p>

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<p>How it develops</p>

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<p>What are symptoms?</p>

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<p>What the patient feels</p>

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<p>What are signs?</p>

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<p>Our observations</p>

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<p>What are the basic functional categories of disease?</p>

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<p>Inflammatory</p>

<p>Disorders of circulation</p>

<p>Disorders of cell growth</p>

<p>Degenerative</p>

<p>Developmental</p>

<p>Conditions that do not occur naturally</p>

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<p>What is inflammation?</p>

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<p>Succesion of change occuring in living tissue when it is injured</p>

17
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<p>What are circulatory disorders?</p>

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<p>Abnormalities of flow, vessel wall and components of the blood</p>

18
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<p>What are disorders of growth?</p>

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<p>Abnormal cell growth, including maturation, differentiation, quantity and control</p>

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<p>What are degenerative disorders?</p>

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<p>Abnormalities of tissues and organs</p>

20
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<p>What are developmental disorders?</p>

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<p>Abnormalities of gametogenesis and embryogenesis</p>

21
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<p>What are unnatural conditions?</p>

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<p>Traumatic (accidental and deliberate) and iatrogenic (treatment related)</p>