Key Words - Health

The key words that you need to remeber for the health topic for As geography.

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  • Created by: Rachael
  • Created on: 03-05-09 15:55
What is the definition of Health ?
A state of complete physical, mental and social well being.
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What is the dfinition of Morbidity ?
Illness and the reporting of disease.
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What is the definition of Mortality?
The death of people. It is measured by a number of indices including death rate, infant mortality rate, case mortality and attack rate.
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What is the definition of attack rate?
The number of cases of a disease diagnosed in an area divided by the total population over the period of an epidemic.
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What is the definition of infant mortality ?
The number of deaths of children under the age of 1 year expressed per 1000 live births per year.
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What is the definition of Case mortality ?
The number of people dying from a disease divided by the number of those diagnosed as having the disease.
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What is the definition of crude death rate ?
The number of deaths per 1000 people in one year.
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Sian

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Very good quiz apart from the confusion on the last question. The crude death rate is the actual number of people that die each year unlike the death rate being how many people die per 1000 a year.

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