World Health Organization
What is mortality? age range?
The death rate from 15-60 years old.
What causes malaria ?
An infected mosquito bite
What is sickness of any departure, subjective, or objective from physiological state of well-being?
Disability
Eating contaminated food
Food-borne or water-borne
How many links does the chain of infection have?
6
What are 3 WHO prevention efforts?
1) Wear Seatbelts
2) Wear helmets
3) Against Drunk Driving
What is Cholera?
A bacterial, waterborne and diarrheal disease
What is the leading cause of mortality/morbidity among children?
Unintentional Injury
an object or substance that can transmit disease
What is the number new cases over a specific period of time?
Incidence
What is Public Health?
The science of protecting and improving the health of people and their communities.
What type of disease is tuberculosis and how can it be treated?
A bacterial infection that can be treated with antibiotics.
What is the leading causes of death in teens? (top 2)
Traffic Accidents and Suicide
passed during pregnancy
Mother to child
What is the number of people living with a disease?
Prevalence
What is the leading cause of death in teens?
Traffic Accidents
What are the 4 sources of communicable diseases?
Bacteria, Virus, Fungi, and Parasite
What are the three groups of intentional injury?
self-inflicted
interpersonal
collective
contact with an infected person or their bodily fluid.
Direct contact
What is Years of Life Lost?
a health indicator that equals life expectancy minus actual age of death for a population
What is WHO definition of World Health ?
A state of complete physical, mental and social well-being, not merely the absence of disease or infirmity.
What is the flu and how can it be treated?
A virus that can be treated with antiviral medication.
What is another word for illness and injury?
Morbidity
spread by an animal or insect, usually the bite of an infected.
vectorborne
What is a theory that explains how the health of a country changes overtime because of industrialization and improvements in healthcare?
Epidemiological Transition