HREQ 3890 Lecture Notes - Lecture 7: Unsafe Abortion, Parasitic Disease, Infant Mortality
11 Nov 2014
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Increase in the average length of life. Since ww2, longevity of life in most developed and developing countries has increased by almost 25 years. Despite overall improvements in living conditions and medical care, health problems and health care delivery are major concerns of individuals, families, communities and nations. Health a state of complete physical, mental and social well being. The study of patterns of health and disease is called epidemiology. Epidemiologist studies the social origins and distribution of health problems in a population and how patterns of. Morbidity refers to acute and chronic illness and diseases and the symptoms and impairments they produce. Chronic is a long term health problem. Incidence refers to the number of new cases of a specific health problem within a given population during a. Prevalence refers to the total number of cases of a specific health problem within a population at a given time.
