Hed Exam 1

activities aimed at improving or protecting the health of a population or community - Answer- community health the top 2 causes of death in the US - Answer- cancer and cardiovascular disease conditions or behaviors that make it more likely a person will acquire a disease - Answer- risk factors when people do not have access to fresh fruits, vegetables, and/or healthy refrigerated items - Answer- food deserts list 3 differences between public health officials and physicians in serving the public - Answer- public health: focuses on the group, forms assumptions, seeks to prevent disease physician: lab tools, doesn't take other factors into account just individual factors, prescribed medications, treats disease the rules of behavior that are considered acceptable in a group of society - Answer- social norms years of life lost are calculated by this formula - Answer- 75 - age of death population specific differences in the presence of disease, health outcome, or access to care - Answer- health disparity number of events in a given population over a given period of time or given point in time - Answer- rates list 3 types of vehicles - Answer- blood, food, water, inanimate objects this type of cancer is most common in younger men - Answer- testicular this type of cancer is most common in older men - Answer- prostate causes of disease that occur occasionally at irregular intervals and name of one disease - Answer- sporadic - tetanus, chicken pox what are the two races/ethnicities with the highest increase in HIV infections - Answer-