Health Disparities
This term refers to differences in health outcomes and access to healthcare among different demographic groups.
Health disparity
The 4 terms that anatomically refer to the front and back of body
anterior and posterior vs. ventral and dorsal
Anatomy is structure. Physiology is....
function
The concept that organisms who are the best suited to their environment will be the most successful
natural selection
How many days does the average person sleep for during their lifetime?
What is one third of your life?
If you live to be 75 years old, you will have slept for 25 years or 9,125 days.
Disparate populations often experience higher rates of chronic diseases due to what?
Limited access to healthcare
What terms would explain the heart as it is inside the chest compared to the skin is outside
The heart is deep, while the skin is superficial
which term describes a state of steady internal, physical, chemical, and social conditions maintained by living systems
homeostasis
This RNA is transcribed from a section of DNA and later leaves the nucleus in order to be translated into an amino acid chain.
What is mRNA
How many gallons of blood does the heart pump in one day?
What is 4,000 gallons?
A geographic area that is located outside towns and cities. Examples include farm towns and border towns
What is a rural area?
Skin color is due largely to
What is melanin?
Organ system that distributes blood cells, water, & dissolved minerals like nutrients and carbon dioxide
Cardiovascular system
The grouping of cells that contain DNA, cytoplasm, ribosomes, and a cell membrane, but no other membrane-bound organelles.
On average how many times does the heart beat in one day?
At an average rate of 80 times a minute, the heart beats about 115,000 times in one day or 42 million times in a year. During an average lifetime, the human heart will beat more than 3 billion times -- pumping an amount of blood that equals about 1 million barrels.
Raising public and provider awareness, expanding health insurance coverage, improving the capacity and number of providers in underserved communities and increasing the knowledge base on causes and interventions all are ways to do what
Minimize health disparities
What is the smallest bone in the body?
the stapes
What term describes a variation outside of normal limits, which triggers a response that restores the normal condition
Negative feedback
The process by which water moves through the cell membrane to balance out a high concentration of solutes.
What is osmosis
How many times do you blink in one minute?
What is 25 times?
This term encompasses economic stability, education access and quality, health care access and quality, neighborhood and built environment, and social and community context.
What are the social determinants of health
What is the term for the “water jacket” of physical support and buoyancy which gets provided to the central nervous system.
Cerebrospinal fluid
What is the role of hemoglobin?
Hemoglobin contains iron, which allows it to pick up oxygen from the air we breathe and deliver it everywhere in the body.
movement of ions, and molecules across cell membranes without the need for energy input
what is passive transport?
How often do the kidneys filter blood?
Every day, they filter about 1,800 litres of blood and excrete the filtered waste of products and toxins through urine. It takes just five minutes for all the blood in our body to pass through the kidneys; every day this happens about 300 times.