OCR A Level Geography Disease
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Dilemmas Questions With Answers || || || ||
Health - CORRECT ANSWER(S)✔✔The combination of
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physical, mental/emotional, and social well-being
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Epidemiology - CORRECT ANSWER(S)✔✔Branch of || || || || ||
medical science concerned with the incidence,
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distribution, and control of diseases that affect large
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numbers of people. || ||
infectious disease - CORRECT ANSWER(S)✔✔A disease
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that is caused by a pathogen and that can be spread from
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one individual to another.
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non-infectious disease - CORRECT ANSWER(S)✔✔a || || || || ||
disease that cannot spread from one person to another
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contagious - CORRECT ANSWER(S)✔✔Able to be passed
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easily from one person to another directly
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non-contagious disease - CORRECT ANSWER(S)✔✔not || || || || ||
readily transmitted from one host to another
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,communicable disease - CORRECT ANSWER(S)✔✔A || || || || ||
disease that can be spread from one person or species to
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another, directly or indirectly
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non-communicable disease - CORRECT ANSWER(S)✔✔a || || || || ||
disease not capable of being spread from one person to
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another
Types of NCDs - CORRECT ANSWER(S)✔✔Cardiovascular
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Cancer
Chronic respiratory||
Diabetes
endemic disease - CORRECT ANSWER(S)✔✔Present at a
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continuous level throughout a population/geographic area
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epidemic - CORRECT ANSWER(S)✔✔A widespread
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outbreak of an infectious disease.
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Pandemic - CORRECT ANSWER(S)✔✔Disease that occurs
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over a wide geographic area and affects a very high
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proportion of the population. || || ||
,zoonotic disease - CORRECT ANSWER(S)✔✔a disease
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communicable from animals to humans under natural || || || || || || ||
conditions; also know as zoonosis || || || ||
mortality - CORRECT ANSWER(S)✔✔death
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Morbidity - CORRECT ANSWER(S)✔✔Refers to ill health in
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an individual and the levels of ill health in a population or
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group.
Vector - CORRECT ANSWER(S)✔✔A third party organism
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that carries and transmits a communicable disease
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Pathogen - CORRECT ANSWER(S)✔✔An organism that
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causes disease ||
prevalence of disease - CORRECT ANSWER(S)✔✔total|| || || || || ||
number of existing cases with respect to the entire
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population
incidence of disease - CORRECT ANSWER(S)✔✔the
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number of new cases of a disease in a given area or
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population during a given period of time || || || || || ||
, incidence rate - CORRECT ANSWER(S)✔✔number of
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people contracting a disease during a time period, per
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head of those at risk
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example of endemic disease - CORRECT|| || || || || ||
ANSWER(S)✔✔common cold, affects virtually everyone || || || ||
example of epidemic - CORRECT ANSWER(S)✔✔Ebola,
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killed 11,000 from 14-16
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Pandemic example - CORRECT ANSWER(S)✔✔Covid-19
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4 Hagerstrand Models of Diffusion - CORRECT
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ANSWER(S)✔✔Expansion
Relocation
Contagious
Hierarchical
Expansion Diffusion - CORRECT ANSWER(S)✔✔One place
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of origin, spreads but stays in the origin. For example, TB
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in East Asia, where 22 countries have had 80% of cases.
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relocation diffusion - CORRECT ANSWER(S)✔✔Moves from
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one place to another. Cholera spread Nepal to Haiti,
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Dilemmas Questions With Answers || || || ||
Health - CORRECT ANSWER(S)✔✔The combination of
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physical, mental/emotional, and social well-being
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Epidemiology - CORRECT ANSWER(S)✔✔Branch of || || || || ||
medical science concerned with the incidence,
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distribution, and control of diseases that affect large
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numbers of people. || ||
infectious disease - CORRECT ANSWER(S)✔✔A disease
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that is caused by a pathogen and that can be spread from
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one individual to another.
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non-infectious disease - CORRECT ANSWER(S)✔✔a || || || || ||
disease that cannot spread from one person to another
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contagious - CORRECT ANSWER(S)✔✔Able to be passed
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easily from one person to another directly
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non-contagious disease - CORRECT ANSWER(S)✔✔not || || || || ||
readily transmitted from one host to another
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,communicable disease - CORRECT ANSWER(S)✔✔A || || || || ||
disease that can be spread from one person or species to
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another, directly or indirectly
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non-communicable disease - CORRECT ANSWER(S)✔✔a || || || || ||
disease not capable of being spread from one person to
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another
Types of NCDs - CORRECT ANSWER(S)✔✔Cardiovascular
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Cancer
Chronic respiratory||
Diabetes
endemic disease - CORRECT ANSWER(S)✔✔Present at a
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continuous level throughout a population/geographic area
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epidemic - CORRECT ANSWER(S)✔✔A widespread
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outbreak of an infectious disease.
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Pandemic - CORRECT ANSWER(S)✔✔Disease that occurs
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over a wide geographic area and affects a very high
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proportion of the population. || || ||
,zoonotic disease - CORRECT ANSWER(S)✔✔a disease
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communicable from animals to humans under natural || || || || || || ||
conditions; also know as zoonosis || || || ||
mortality - CORRECT ANSWER(S)✔✔death
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Morbidity - CORRECT ANSWER(S)✔✔Refers to ill health in
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an individual and the levels of ill health in a population or
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group.
Vector - CORRECT ANSWER(S)✔✔A third party organism
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that carries and transmits a communicable disease
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Pathogen - CORRECT ANSWER(S)✔✔An organism that
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causes disease ||
prevalence of disease - CORRECT ANSWER(S)✔✔total|| || || || || ||
number of existing cases with respect to the entire
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population
incidence of disease - CORRECT ANSWER(S)✔✔the
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number of new cases of a disease in a given area or
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population during a given period of time || || || || || ||
, incidence rate - CORRECT ANSWER(S)✔✔number of
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people contracting a disease during a time period, per
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head of those at risk
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example of endemic disease - CORRECT|| || || || || ||
ANSWER(S)✔✔common cold, affects virtually everyone || || || ||
example of epidemic - CORRECT ANSWER(S)✔✔Ebola,
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killed 11,000 from 14-16
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Pandemic example - CORRECT ANSWER(S)✔✔Covid-19
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4 Hagerstrand Models of Diffusion - CORRECT
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ANSWER(S)✔✔Expansion
Relocation
Contagious
Hierarchical
Expansion Diffusion - CORRECT ANSWER(S)✔✔One place
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of origin, spreads but stays in the origin. For example, TB
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in East Asia, where 22 countries have had 80% of cases.
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relocation diffusion - CORRECT ANSWER(S)✔✔Moves from
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one place to another. Cholera spread Nepal to Haiti,
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