GERON 210 Final: Hlth/geron 210 Study Notes with some questions and answers and also learning objective for each unit. I hope this helps you!

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16 Oct 2011

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University of Waterloo

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Gerontology

Course

GERON 210

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Nancy Pearce

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Note: you are not expected to know the health care costs associated with various conditions (this information was provided for interest only, to illustrate the magnitude of various problems). Study questions: explain why chronic illness may be difficult to diagnose in older adults. Co-morbidity: have more than one disease at a time. Medications: they are on multiple medications, side effects can look like symptom or mask symptoms. Mortality is the %age of people that die from a certain disease while morbidity is the suffering that occurs in people with a certain disease: what are the leading causes of mortality and morbidity in older. The leading cause of death in older canadian men than women is heart disease and stroke cancer combined. In both diseases the knees hands and hips are affected, for both to be treated a healthy body weight is to be maintained. In osteoarthritis the spine is involved while in rheumatoid arthritis the spine isn"t.

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One weakness of the MDGs was that they neglected non-communicable, chronic diseases. Have the SDGs made any progress in this area? Give examples to support your position. Also, propose or revise a SDG that addresses a non-communicable disease, and justify why you think this SDG is necessary. (Use disease burden, such as DALYs, mortality and morbidity data.)

QUESTION 1 1. The relative importance or burden of a disease within a population will depend on a number of factors including : A. Disease frequency B. Disease severity C. Disease consequences D. All of the above

QUESTION 2 1 . With the epidemiologic transition, there is a reduction in malnutrition and _____ . A. Communicable diseases B. Injuries C. Non-communicable chronic diseases D. Mental health disorders

QUESTION 3 1. A major challenge to developing a burden of disease profile in low and middle-income countries relates to A. Unwillingness to share complete information B. Conflicting disease definitions C. Challenges obtaining information related to cause of death D. All of the above

QUESTION 4 1. The demographic transition describes which of the following changes to society A. Changes in birth and death rates that reflect a modern society B. Declines in mortality followed by a reduction in fertility C. A change in the age structure of the population D. All of the above

QUESTION 5 1. Measures of health status that combine mortality and morbidity data A. Facilitate comparisons both within and across populations B. Help estimate the quantitative health benefits from interventions C. Serve as tools to assist with resource allocation D. All of the above

QUESTION 6 1. The disability-adjusted life year is defined as A. A health gap population summary measure that combines time lost due to disability with that lost due to death B. A measure to compare the gap between the current situation to that of an ideal situation C. A measure that combines the amount of healthy life lost due to morbidity with that lost due to injury. D. Answers B and C

QUESTION 7 1. True or false? A key limitation to mortality-based indicators is that they fail to account for the morbidity caused by disease. True False

QUESTION 8 1. The most widely used composite measure of population health is the DALY, and this epidemiological measure is the sum of morbidity and ________data. A. Years of life lost (YLL) B. Morbidity C. Infant mortality rates (IMR) D. none of the above

QUESTION 9 1. What would be the best source of information on adult and infant mortality (in high income countries)? A. Disease registers B. Vital statistics C. Special survey study D. Hospital clinic statistics

QUESTION 10 1. Which term is best used to describe the proportion of people in a population who have a defined disease at a specific point of time? A. DALY B. Incidence C. Mortality rate D. Prevalence

QUESTION 11 1. Which term is best used to describe new cases of disease occurring in a population? A. DALY B. Incidence C. Mortality rate D. Prevalence

QUESTION 12 1. Which term is used to describe the absence or presence of illness or disease? A. Demography B. Morbidity C. Mortality D. Vitality

QUESTION 13 1. Mortality (death indicators) include: A. Mortality rate B. Infant mortality rate C. Neonatal morality rate D. All of the above

QUESTION 14 1. True or false? The value of life is often implicit in the way resource allocation decisions are made, which suggests that these decisions should be as explicit, open, and transparent as possible. True False

QUESTION 15 1. _________________is projected as the number one leading cause of disease burden in 2030. A. Ischemic heart disease B. Diabetes mellitus C. HIV/AIDS D. Unipolar depression

QUESTION 16 1. Some of the negative aspects of globalization include A. Greater insecurity of employment B. Poorer housing and sanitation due to rapid urbanization C. Greater vulnerability to environmental degradation D. All of the above

QUESTION 17 1. Current concerns about climate change focus on several developments including A. Rising global average land and sea surface temperature B. Increasing frequency of extreme weather conditions C. Both A and B D. None of the above

QUESTION 18 1. True or false? Diseases carried by mosquitoes are especially sensitive to meteorological conditions because they are vulnerable to changes in the ambient temperature. As a result of changing temperatures, infectious diseases such as malaria and dengue have decreased in incidence and geographic range. True False

QUESTION 19 1. True or false? International cooperation of infectious disease control has a long history that includes obligatory reporting of outbreaks of specific diseases. However, compliance with obligatory reporting has been poor due to economic consequences that have often accompanied notification of disease outbreaks. True False

QUESTION 20 1. True or false? Globalization is a relatively new phenomenon that began in the mid-20th century. True False

epidemiology is the study of disease in a population? What is epidemiology? How do epidemiologists measure health. discuss the current trends in these three measures of epidemiology.discuss the following sociological variables are related to death illness and healthcare: discuss the gender education race and the social class discuss how gender is related to one's life span and their chance of illness .what is the difference in mortality rates between men and women in America and why education is important predictor of mortality and illness

GERON 210 Final: Hlth/geron 210 Study Notes with some questions and answers and also learning objective for each unit. I hope this helps you!

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