BSNC 1000 - module 1-3 Questions with Complete Solutions

BSNC 1000 - module 1-3 Questions with Complete


Solutions (2024/2025)


1. What are the determinants of health?: the range of personal,


social, economic, and environmental factors that influence health status


2. What is health?: a state of complete physical, mental, and social


well-being and not merely the absence of disease or infirmity


3. What is the ENVIRONMENT of the epidemiological triad?:


internal/external to a given host or agent and that is influenced by and


influences the host and agent


4.What is the HOST of the epidemiological triad?: living species


capable of being infected/affected by the agent


5. What is the AGENT in the epidemiological triad?:
1/

, animate/inanimate factor that must be present OR lacking for disease


to develop


6. What is primary prevention?: measures to decrease the


incidence of disease ie/ handwashing, seatbelts


7. What is secondary prevention?: focuses on identifying the


disease early ie/ health screening or family history


8. What is tertiary prevention?: interrupting the course of


disease/reducing dis- ability/rehabilitation


9. What is the chain of infection?: infectious agent, reservoir, portal


of exit, mode of transmission, portal of entry, susceptible host


10.What are the 4 subconcepts of population health?: 1-


health promotion 2-epidemiology


3- illness/injury prevention

2/