AS Geography of Health

Quiz of the main terms you might get asked to define in the exam.

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  • Created by: Sian
  • Created on: 30-04-10 21:07

1. What defines the number of people dying from a disease divide by the number of those diagnosed as having the disease?

  • Attack Rate
  • Case-Mortality Rate
  • Crude Death Rate
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2. What indicator states the number of deaths per 1000 people per year?

  • Infant Mortality Rate
  • Crude Death Rate
  • Mortality

3. What describes the overall condition of an individual at a given time in regard to the soundness of their body or mind and freedom from disease or abnormality?

  • Health
  • Public Health
  • Palliative

4. What is morbidity?

  • the state of being ill or diseased, or the occurrence of a disease/condition that chnages the health and quality of life
  • death, the term is often accompanied by the cause of death (specific disease or condition or injury)

5. What indicates aspect of medical activity that directed towards improving health of the whole community. This addresses health of a population as a whole rather than medical health care, which focuses on treatment of the individual ailment?

  • Health
  • Public Health
  • Palliative
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