HSCI 211 Study Guide - Final Guide: Selection Bias, Pain Management, Smoking And Pregnancy
10 Jan 2018
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These differences are important because it allows us to identify trends and utilize the appropriate prevention/control/treatment/interventions for either communicable or non-communicable: risk factors. Risk factor: aspect of personal behaviour, lifestyle, environmental exposure, hereditary characteristic associated w/ increased occurrence of disease, injury or health condition. Modifiable risk factor: can be reduced or controlled by intervention. Main 4: tobacco, unhealthy diet, sedentary lifestyle, alcohol. Non-modifiable risk factor: cannot be reduced or controlled by intervention e. g. age, gender, race, fam history. Metabolic risk factor: biochemical processes involved in body normal f(x) e. g. bp, cholesterol, glucose lvl, obesity: chronic disease continuum for diabetes disability and death downstream chronic diseases midstream chronic conditions upstream risk factors (cid:862)upstream(cid:863) social and economic determinants. Mortality: # deaths per population in given time or place (crude death rate) expressed as per. Morbidity: sickness or any departure, subjective or objective, from a psychological or physiological state of well-being.
