population health

Question 1

Disease

Answer 1

objective, physiological/psychological dysfunction

Question 1

illness

Answer 1

the subjective experience of being sick, perceptions and reactions to the condition

Question 2

What is the difference between community and population?

Answer 2

community: some common interest or values, religion, sports clubs (different walks of life coming together)
Population: some species within a specific area

Question 3

What are the two types of SDoH?

Answer 3

structural: socioeconomic and political contexts
intermediary: material circumstances, psycho/bio factors

Question 4

epidemiology

Answer 4

study of the distribution of factors that determine health related states or events in a pop.

Question 5

morbidity

Answer 5

occurrence of disease in a population

Question 6

mortality

Answer 6

number of deaths

Question 7

proportion

Answer 7

number per 100 or 100,000

Question 8

rate

Answer 8

How rapidly disease occurs

Question 9

incedence

Answer 9

number of new cases

Question 10

epidemic

Answer 10

occurence of a greater number of cases of a disease than expected

Question 11

point epidemic

Answer 11

time and space related pattern that is important in investigations (e.g. outbreak)

Question 12

endemic

Answer 12

disease with constant presence in pop.

Question 13

pandemic

Answer 13

geographically widespread area in a big population

Question 14

mortality

Answer 14

how many deaths

Question 15

proportional mortality ratio

Answer 15

proportion of all deaths in a pop. due to a specific cause, over total deaths, x 100