Intro Lec 1

Question 1

What is Health?

Answer 1

The absence of disease; no problems to the body functioning or surviving

Question 2

What is health according to WHO?

Answer 2

A state of complete physical, mental, and social well being and not merely the absence of disease

Question 3

What is etiology?

Answer 3

Cause of disease

Question 4

What is disease?

Answer 4

overt signs and symptoms that is considered harmful to the affected host

Question 5

Transitions from health to disease: Acute?

Answer 5

This is when the disease is sudden…..ex: flu

Question 6

Transitions from health to disease:Chronic?

Answer 6

Disease that is long term..ex: cancer, heart disease

Question 7

What are some etiological factors:

Answer 7

1. endogenous
2. exogenous
3. overlap between both

Question 8

Why is it important to understand the mech of disease?

Answer 8

It helps in preventing the disease
Also in order to provide treatment
Also don’t have a good understanding about some diseases yet

Question 9

What are signs?

Answer 9

What the doctor sees or feels

Question 10

What are symptoms?

Answer 10

What the patient complains about

Question 11

What is diagnosis?

Answer 11

The results of lab tests, x-rays

Question 12

What is prognosis?

Answer 12

The likely future for the patient in terms of length and quality of life

Question 13

What is remission?

Answer 13

A symptom free period

Question 14

What is relapse?

Answer 14

symptoms of disease returns

Question 15

What is pathogenicity?

Answer 15

ability to cause a disease

Question 16

What is idiopathic?

Answer 16

of unknown cause

Question 17

What is epidemiology?

Answer 17

The study of patterns of disease occurrence in relation to possible causal factors

Question 18

What is morbidity rate?

Answer 18

of clinically ill* 100%/ pop at risk

Question 19

What is mortality rate?

Answer 19

of deaths*100%/pop at risk

Question 20

What is iatrogenic:

Answer 20

medical blunder

Question 21

What is susceptible:

Answer 21

a person not possessing sufficient resistance against certain diseases

Question 22

What is pop at risk?

Answer 22

the subgroup of the pop most likely to have a specific disease in terms of susceptibility and exposure

Question 23

What is nosocomial infection?

Answer 23

An infection which results from exposure following admission to a hospital or clinic …ex: TB

Question 24

Zoonoses:

Answer 24

infection or disease naturally transmitted from vertebrate animals to human

Question 25

Virulence?

Answer 25

measure of severity of disease

Question 26

Infection?

Answer 26

lodgment and multiplication of an agent in host tissue

Question 27

What is infection?

Answer 27

The colonization and/or invasion and multip of pathogenic microorganisms in the host with or without the manifestation of disease

Question 28

Pathogenesis?

Answer 28

sequence of events from the initial stimulus to the ultimate expression of the disease