HSC 310 Midterm Questions and
Answers
Determinants - Answer-causes or factors that are associated with increases risk or
probability of disease
Social Determinants to Health - Answer-conditions in the environments in which people are
born, live, learn, work, play, worship, and the age that aff...
Pandemic - Answer✔✔-an epidemic causing illness or death over an extensive area, generally
crossing international boarders
Endemic - Answer✔✔-a high baseline or background rate of disease
Cases - Answer✔✔-the # of people afflicted with a disease
Rates - Answer✔✔-the # of events that occur in a given pop. in a given time period
Incidence - Answer✔✔-the occurrence of new causes of disease that develop in a pop. over a
specific period of time, it is the frequency with which a new disease develops.
Prevalence rate - Answer✔✔-calcaluated by dividing all current causes of a disease (old&new)
by the total pop.
Disease - Answer✔✔-state of functional disequilibrium or change in function or structure that is
considered to be abnormal
Antomony - Answer✔✔-normal structure of the body
Physiology - Answer✔✔-normal function of the body
signs - Answer✔✔-any objective evidence of a disease (can be seen or measured)
symptoms - Answer✔✔-subjective, can only be detected or sensed by the patient
syndrome - Answer✔✔-set of signs and symptoms that occur concurrently in some diseases
morbidity rate - Answer✔✔-the number of existing or new cases of a disease or condition per
1000 people
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