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Health (WHO Definition 1946) [ Ans: ] A state of complete
physical, mental, and social well-being and not merely the
absence of disease or infirmity
Health (Frankish et. al 1996) [ Ans: ] The capacity of people to
adapt to, respond to, or control life's challenges and changes
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"Functional Definition"
Disease [ Ans: ] The biological or physical malady affecting the
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body
Sickness [ Ans: ] Social acknowledgement of impairment of
affliction
Illness [ Ans: ] Perception of dysfunction by an afflicting individual
The Relationships: Disease Without Ilness [ Ans: ] Hypertension
- HBP can lead to heart attack but patient does not feel ill and
does not seek care
The Relationships: Ilness without Disease [ Ans: ] Hypochondriac
(anxiety)
Feeling of being ill, but nothing wrong despite extensive medical
testing
The Relationships: Ilness without Sickness [ Ans: ] Headache
Feeling of being ill, requires doctor's note for absense
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Health and Disease [ Ans: ] - Not necessarily opposites
Disease (Yes)
Healthy well managed type 1 diabetic
Unhealthy late stage cancer
Healthy vibrant neighbour
Unhealthy overworked teacher
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Disease (No)
Factors that cause disease [ Ans: ] 1. germs
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2. genetics
3. lifestyle
4. multifactorial disease (epigenetics, environmental)
Factors that cause disease: germs [ Ans: ] - prominent in the 19th
century
1. Kach
- germs are in diseased individuals and are absent in the rest, they
can be isolated/cultured, germs cause disease in healthy hosts,
and germs can be re-isolated from newly diseased (ignores social
context + genetic origins)
2. Lister
- sepsis (infection) caused by pollen-like dust containing surgical
wounds, antiseptics (carboxylic acid) should prevent wound
infections (surgical mortality 45%->15%)
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3. Pasteur
- first pastuated germ theory of disease, principals on microbial
fermentation + sterilization, described heat treatment of milk/wine
"pasteurization"
Factors that cause disease: genetics [ Ans: ] - interplay between
genetics and environment
1. emphasizes hereditary vulnerability
2. focuses on individual, not society
Factors that cause disease: lifestyle [ Ans: ] - behaviourally-driven
- smoking, alcohol, fatty foods
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- emphasizes individual behaviour change
Factors that cause disease: multifactorial disease (epigenetics,
environmental) [ Ans: ] - epigenetics: specific gene ↑ risk of a
disease (ex. BRCA and breast cancer
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- not completely deterministic
- environmental trigger needed
- necessary, but not sufficient
Well-being and wellness [ Ans: ] Well-being: broader concept,
encompasses many areas of life
- ex. learning, financial security, social participation, work, family
life, leisure, environ, security, housing
- state of feeling well (not ill or sick)
- not generally a synonym of being "healthy"
Population Health [ Ans: ] - health can be understood at the
population level; groups with shared characteristics
- health outcomes of a group of individuals, including the
distribution of such outcomes within the group
- studies health outcomes, patterns of health determinants, and
policies that link these two
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Epidemiology [ Ans: ] the study of the distribution and
determinants of disease in populations
- Distribution: descriptive epidemiology focus, how specific
outcomes are patterned in a population, essential for etiology
(origins) of disease
- Determinants: analytical epidemiology focus, anything that
influences the health of an individual and the distribution of health
states in a population
Population Health: Fundamental Assumptions [ Ans: ] - diseases
distribute non-randomly in a population in relation to the factors
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that determine health
- factors can be identified by studying distributions of health
outcomes in a population
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Public Health Agency of Canada [ Ans: ] - Population health is
an approach to health that aims to improve the health of the
entire population and to reduce health inequities among
population groups
- approach recognizes that health is a capacity or resource rather
than a state
Determinants of Health [ Ans: ] - broad, yet interconnected
- WHO: "the range of personal, social, economic, and
environmental factors which determine individual and population
health status"
- Broad Categories
1. Individual (genetic makeup, sex, age)
2. Physical environment (water, sanitation, pollution)
3. Employment and working conditions
4. Access to Health Services
5. Healthy behaviours and coping skills
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GLPH171 Questions and Answers (100%
Correct Answers) Already Graded A+
Health (WHO Definition 1946) [ Ans: ] A state of complete
physical, mental, and social well-being and not merely the
absence of disease or infirmity
Health (Frankish et. al 1996) [ Ans: ] The capacity of people to
adapt to, respond to, or control life's challenges and changes
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"Functional Definition"
Disease [ Ans: ] The biological or physical malady affecting the
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body
Sickness [ Ans: ] Social acknowledgement of impairment of
affliction
Illness [ Ans: ] Perception of dysfunction by an afflicting individual
The Relationships: Disease Without Ilness [ Ans: ] Hypertension
- HBP can lead to heart attack but patient does not feel ill and
does not seek care
The Relationships: Ilness without Disease [ Ans: ] Hypochondriac
(anxiety)
Feeling of being ill, but nothing wrong despite extensive medical
testing
The Relationships: Ilness without Sickness [ Ans: ] Headache
Feeling of being ill, requires doctor's note for absense
, 2
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Health and Disease [ Ans: ] - Not necessarily opposites
Disease (Yes)
Healthy well managed type 1 diabetic
Unhealthy late stage cancer
Healthy vibrant neighbour
Unhealthy overworked teacher
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Disease (No)
Factors that cause disease [ Ans: ] 1. germs
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2. genetics
3. lifestyle
4. multifactorial disease (epigenetics, environmental)
Factors that cause disease: germs [ Ans: ] - prominent in the 19th
century
1. Kach
- germs are in diseased individuals and are absent in the rest, they
can be isolated/cultured, germs cause disease in healthy hosts,
and germs can be re-isolated from newly diseased (ignores social
context + genetic origins)
2. Lister
- sepsis (infection) caused by pollen-like dust containing surgical
wounds, antiseptics (carboxylic acid) should prevent wound
infections (surgical mortality 45%->15%)
, 3
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3. Pasteur
- first pastuated germ theory of disease, principals on microbial
fermentation + sterilization, described heat treatment of milk/wine
"pasteurization"
Factors that cause disease: genetics [ Ans: ] - interplay between
genetics and environment
1. emphasizes hereditary vulnerability
2. focuses on individual, not society
Factors that cause disease: lifestyle [ Ans: ] - behaviourally-driven
- smoking, alcohol, fatty foods
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- emphasizes individual behaviour change
Factors that cause disease: multifactorial disease (epigenetics,
environmental) [ Ans: ] - epigenetics: specific gene ↑ risk of a
disease (ex. BRCA and breast cancer
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- not completely deterministic
- environmental trigger needed
- necessary, but not sufficient
Well-being and wellness [ Ans: ] Well-being: broader concept,
encompasses many areas of life
- ex. learning, financial security, social participation, work, family
life, leisure, environ, security, housing
- state of feeling well (not ill or sick)
- not generally a synonym of being "healthy"
Population Health [ Ans: ] - health can be understood at the
population level; groups with shared characteristics
- health outcomes of a group of individuals, including the
distribution of such outcomes within the group
- studies health outcomes, patterns of health determinants, and
policies that link these two
, 4
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Epidemiology [ Ans: ] the study of the distribution and
determinants of disease in populations
- Distribution: descriptive epidemiology focus, how specific
outcomes are patterned in a population, essential for etiology
(origins) of disease
- Determinants: analytical epidemiology focus, anything that
influences the health of an individual and the distribution of health
states in a population
Population Health: Fundamental Assumptions [ Ans: ] - diseases
distribute non-randomly in a population in relation to the factors
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that determine health
- factors can be identified by studying distributions of health
outcomes in a population
Guru01 - Stuvia
Public Health Agency of Canada [ Ans: ] - Population health is
an approach to health that aims to improve the health of the
entire population and to reduce health inequities among
population groups
- approach recognizes that health is a capacity or resource rather
than a state
Determinants of Health [ Ans: ] - broad, yet interconnected
- WHO: "the range of personal, social, economic, and
environmental factors which determine individual and population
health status"
- Broad Categories
1. Individual (genetic makeup, sex, age)
2. Physical environment (water, sanitation, pollution)
3. Employment and working conditions
4. Access to Health Services
5. Healthy behaviours and coping skills
