L25: Health, Illness And Disease

Question 1

WHO definition of health

Answer 1

State of complete physical, mental and social well-being and not merely the absence of disease or infirmity

Question 2

Definition of illness

Answer 2

Perception of oneself being sick

Question 3

Changes in pattern of mortality

Answer 3

1. Acute to chronic causes
2. Childhood survival improved in developed countries
3. Adulthood life expectancy little changed
4. Mortality due to infectious disease declined because cause can be identified

Question 4

What contributed to change in pattern of mortality

Answer 4

(BCDE) 4 categories: Economic, Cultural, Domestic, Behavioural

Positive change
1. Nature of work
2. Improved income
3. Food availability
3. Food hygiene legislation —> Better nutrition, drinking water
4. Improved infrastructure: living conditions, sewage disposal
5. Labour rights, social security
6. Education
7. Decline in fertility rate
—> family size, age distribution, birth spacing
—> increase in median age of infection, lower case fatality rate
—> more children survived —> mean age of population increased

Negative change

1. Increase in body mass
2. Tobacco/alcohol use
3. Overconsumption
4. Social pressure/ alienation