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Morbidity

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The state of being ill or diseased or the occurrence of a disease or condition that damages health and quality of life

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Mortality

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The death of people

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Health

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The state of complete physical, mental and social well-being. Not merely the absence of disease and infirmity

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AIDS

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Incurable viral disease which weakens immune system and is passed through bodily fluids

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HIV

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A virus which attacks the immune system, it can develop into AIDS

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Opportunistic infections

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Illnesses which strike people whose immune systems have previously been damaged by HIV

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ARV

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Drugs designed to protect the immune system from the effects of HIV

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Generic drugs

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Drugs produced by a variety of different companies

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Patented drugs

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Medecines developed by a company who has claimed rights to it’s production

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Off-patent medecines

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Medecines whose patent no longer applies

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Intellectual property rights

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Ideas behind patents

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Palliative

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A drug/treatment designed to reduce symptoms/pain of a problem

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Vaccination

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Produces immunity to a disease

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Vector

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An organism which carries a particular disease or parasite

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Public health

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Medical activity directed to improve the health of a whole community

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Epidemiology

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Branch of medecine concerned with the incidence and distribution of disease

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Endemic

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Disease which is constantly present in people of a certain class/location

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Epidemic

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Widespread outbreak of an infectious disease

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Prevalence

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A disease’s prominence in a particular area at a particular time

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Transmission

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The spread of disease

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Attack rate

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The number of cases of a disease diagnosed in an area DIVIDED BY the total population

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Case mortality rate

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The number of deaths from a disease DIVIDED BY the number of those diagnosed with it

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IMR

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No. of children who die on or before their first birthday per 1000 live births per year

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Crude death rate

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No. of deaths per 100 people per year

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Balanced diet

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Dietary pattern of foods consumed that provide all essential nutrients in the right amounts

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Famine

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Results from a sequence of events that reduce food availability and causes widespread morbidity and mortality

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Periodic famine

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Famine that occurs in intervals

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Sedentary

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Lifestyle characterised by a lot of sitting and little physical activity

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BMI

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Weight DIVIDED BY the square of your height. Measurement of over/underweight

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Obesity

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A BMI >30. The state of being overweight

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Malnutrition

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A condition caused by a lack of nutrients or an unbalanced diet

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Undernourishment

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Consuming too little food over a long period of time

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Cardiovascular

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Relating to heart and blood vessels

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Chronic

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Illness that lasts for a long time or constantly returns

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Infectious/communicable disease

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Diseases that can be caught and transmitted from person to person

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Non-communicable disease

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Diseases that cannot be passed from one to another

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Diseases of affluence

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Thought to be as a result of increasing wealth e.g. obesity/some types of diabetes

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Diseases of poverty

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Disease that results from impoverishment

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Genetic

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Relating to genes or heredity

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Benign

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Unharmful

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TNC

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A company that operates in at least 2 countries

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NGOs

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Charities

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WHO

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Agency of UN that acts as an authority on international public health

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MDGs

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8 international development goals that the UN aimed to achieve by 2015

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Health system

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Includes all activities whose primary purpose is to promote, restore or maintain health

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Socialised health service

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State provided Public Health Service

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Pluralistic

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Health is viewed as a consumer product

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Insurance/social security

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An insured and guaranteed consumer product

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NHS

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A state supported Public Health Service

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Emergent

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Highly diversified healthcare

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Subsidised

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The cost of something is fully or partially met by public funds

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Free market

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Economic system in which prices are determined by privately owned businesses

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