Week 6

Question 1

migrant

Answer 1

a person who has moved across an international border and has taken up residence in the new country

Question 2

immigrant

Answer 2

a person who has settled in a new country and intends to stay there permanently

Question 3

expatriate

Answer 3

a person who is temporarily living in another country and intends to return to his or her home country

Question 4

asylum seeker

Answer 4

an involuntary migrant who asks for protection from a host country after arriving in that country rather than waiting for a refugee application to be processed prior to travelling

Question 5

acculturation

Answer 5

process of adaptation to stress and development of coping mechanisms in response to stress; includes adjustments made to living in that country, adopting the practices, traditions, values, and identity of a new community after migrating, moving to another country

Question 6

transition theory

Answer 6

migration across international borders that is a complex situational transition, which may include changes to social, cultural, economic, and environmental aspects of a migrant’s life

Question 7

cultural humility

Answer 7

understanding the limits of what we know about other cultures and to be curious, respectful and kind

Question 8

refugee

Answer 8

a person who has been forced to move across an international border because of security concerns like war, civil conflict, political strife, or persecution based on race, tribe, religion, political affiliation or membership in some other group

Question 9

epidemiological triangle

Answer 9

host (susceptible person), agent (etiological factors), environment

Question 10

what are the agents?

Answer 10

nutritive elements
chemical agents
physical agents
infectious agents

Question 11

what are factors that can affect a host’s susceptibility?

Answer 11

genetics 
age
ethnic group 
physiologic state 
prior immunologic state
pre-existing disease 
human behaviour

Question 12

demography

Answer 12

the study of the size and composition of human populations

Question 13

what are the vital statistics for birth and death rates?

Answer 13

births/deaths per year per 1000 people in the total population

Question 14

demographic transition

Answer 14

shift toward lower birth and death rates as populations move from being low-income economies to high-income economies

Question 15

epidemiological transition

Answer 15

shift from infectious disease to chronic, NCDs with 3 initial stages

occurs in parallel with demographic transition as economies of the population improve

Question 16

what are the 5 stages proposed by Omran in epidemiological transition?

Answer 16

1. age of pestilence and famine
2. age of receding pandemics
3. age of degenerative and man-made diseases
4. age of delayed degenerative disease
5. age of emergent and re-emergent infections

Question 17

epidemiology

Answer 17

study of how diseases move in population and how to prevent them

Question 18

burden of disease

Answer 18

global burden

• causes of death
• causes of disease
• disability
• risk factor rates