HSCI 211 Midterm: HSCI MIDTERM QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS

• School: Simon Fraser University
• Department: Health Sciences
• Course: HSCI 211
• Professor: Tun Myint

Document Summary

Do not result from an acute infectious process. Often initially insidious usually develop and progress over long periods. One manifested there is usually protracted period of impaired health. Cause premature morbidity dysfunction and reduce quality of life / incurability. This is important because it distinguishes the difference between non-communicable and communicable disease. Risk factors: an aspect of personal behavior or lifestyle, an environmental exposure or hereditary characteristic that associates with an increase in the occurrence of a disease. Risk factors: (1) modifiable risk factor (behavior factors that can be reduced or controlled by intervention) Examples: tobacco use, unhealthy diet, alcohol use (2) non modifiable risk factor (can"t be reduced or changed) Examples: age, gender, race, genetics (3) metabolic risk factor (chronic condition) 4 common shared modifiable risk factors: poor nutrition, lack of exercise, smoking, heavy use of alcohol: draw the chronic disease continuum for diabetes.