Health Issues

Question 1

What is health?

Answer 1

Health is the complete physical, mental and social well-being of a person/people.

Question 2

What is public health?

Answer 2

• Is the medical activity aiming at improving the general health of communities as a whole.

Question 3

Why is it important to study health?

Answer 3

1. Allows you to study the patterns and spread of diseases.
2. Allows us to understand how physical and human factors affect health.
3. Allows us to see the social, economic and environmental effects.
4. To see how different societies approach their health care.

Question 4

What is attack rate?

Answer 4

• It is the total number of cases of a disease diagnosed during an epidemic divided by population within the affected area.

Question 5

What is case mortality rate?

Answer 5

• It is the number of people that die from a disease divided by the total number of diagnosed cases of the disease.

Question 6

What is crude death rate?

Answer 6

• It is the total number of deaths each year per 1000 people in the population.
• Known as Death Rate

Question 7

What is morbidity?

Answer 7

• It is the rate of incidence of disease and ill health.

Question 8

What is mortality?

Answer 8

• It is the incidence of death within a population.

- It is measures with death rate, infant mortality rate, case mortality rate and attack rate.

Question 9

How is the mortality rate related to the level of development in a country?

Answer 9

• There is a strong relationship between mortality and the level of development.

Question 10

What region of the world has the highest crude death rates?

Answer 10

• Sub Saharan Africa

Question 11

What is the global trend in mortality rates with time?

Answer 11

• Mortality rates are falling globally.

- As countries become more developed, nutrition becomes better, medical science becomes better and technology increases.