SAS 13 Midterm 1 Questions With Complete Solutions 2024

SAS 13 Midterm 1 Questions With Complete Solutions 2024 animalcules - answerLittle animals or microbes, 1st seen in pond water by Leeuenhoek who invented the microscope 1674. Factor V Leiden - answervariant of protein Factor V, which is needed for blood clotting (coagulation), named after Dutch city of Leiden, blood with increased tendency to clot, most common cause of hereditary thrombophilia in the US the "Dutch Disease" - answerthe negative impact on an economy of anything that gives rise to a sharp inflow of foreign currency, such as the discovery of large oil reserves. The currency inflows lead to currency appreciation, making the country's other products less price competitive on the export market. disease as a metaphor - answerSomething that is broken or in poor condition, such as an unhealthy marriage, a sick society, an ailing business disease-inspired cursing in Dutch - answerin Dutch, the common curses people use have a higher likelihood of being related to diseases compared to other countries disease taxonomy - answera classification scheme for diseases, Jacques Bertillion World Health Organization - answerA specialized agency of the United Nations (UN) that is concerned with international public health, in charge of ICD International Classification of Diseases (ICD) - answercodes for diseases and incidents (codes like A 18.0), helps with incident/disease details and mortality stats, used to facilitate communication like police scanner codes ICD-Clinical Modification - answer-modified version of ICD- 10 used in the US, used for mortality statistics, public health/morbidity data, billing purposes medical coding - answerthe act of assigning numbers to descriptions of a patient's diseases, injuries, and treatments according to established codes, job option in healthcare body systems - answermuscular, digestive, nervous, urinary, reproductive, circulatory, hormonal, lymphatic, respiratory, skeletal disease etiology - answercause of disease: infectious, genetic, environmental nutritional deficiency diseases - answercaused by lack of essential nutrients in the diet i.e. goiter (thyroid gland enlargement), iodine deficiency, mortality - answerdeath rate "excess deaths" - answerdeaths above what is historically expected case fatality rate - answertotal deaths/(# of deaths from disease + # of people recovered) x 100 morbidity - answerthe prevalence or incidence of a disease in a population national notifiable disease - answerphysicians are required to report occurrence types of COVID tests - answernucleic acid amplification test (PCR test), antigen test (rapid test), antibody tests (serology tests) disease burden - answerimpact of health problem on an area (society) measured by financial cost, mortality, and morbidity DALYS - answerdisability adjusted life years, describes the overall amount of years lost due to ill-health, disability, or death Boorse. definition of disease - answertype of internal state which is either an impairment of normal functional ability or a limitation of functional ability caused by environmental agents. symtoms/signs - answersymptom: noticed by the patient sign: noticed by others, eg physician asymptomatic - answershowing no symptoms of disease pre symptomatic - answerthe time after infection but before symptoms develop; still infectious debate on disease: normative approach - answerviewpoint that emphasizes undesirability of diseases and the harms and limitations they bring (illness and sickness) debate on disease: naturalist approach - answerviewpoint that believe just the presence of biological dysfunction (disorder) is required aging - answeranti-aging researchers argue aging can be a disease because it can be cured, but no longer considered a disease since 1951 body mass index (BMI) - answermeasure of percent body fat gut microbiome - answerthe bacteria and other organisms that live inside our gastrointestinal tra