______________ is the state of complete physical, mental, and social well-being. - ANSWER: ➡
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health
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What are the goals of healthy people 2020? - ANSWER: ➡ longer lives, improve health for all
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groups and promote good health behaviors
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______________ are preventable differences in the burden of disease, injury, violence, or
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opportunities to achieve optimal health that are experienced by socially dis - ANSWER: ➡
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health disparities
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________________ is the number of cases a specific injury, illness, or disability in a given group of
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people at a given time. - ANSWER: ➡ morbidity
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________________ is the number of deaths due to specific cause in a given group at a given time -
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ANSWER: ➡ mortality
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morbidity is related to ________________, while mortality is related to ________________. - ANSWER:
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➡ death; disease
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________________ are origins - ANSWER: ➡ etiology m m m m mm m
________________ is the number of a new case of disease that occur in a specific population
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within a defined interval. - ANSWER: ➡ incidence
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________________ is the total number of diagnosed cases of disease or condition that exists at a
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certain time. - ANSWER: ➡ prevalence
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, incidence is the number of ________________, while prevalence is the ________________ - ANSWER:
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m➡ new cases; total number
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What is the central nervous system? - ANSWER: ➡ brain and spinal cord
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What does the autonomic nervous system control? - ANSWER: ➡ glands and the muscles of
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the internal organs
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What does the sympathetic nervous system do? - ANSWER: ➡ arouses the body, mobilizing
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its energy in stressful situations "fight or flight"
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What does the parasympathetic nervous system do? - ANSWER: ➡ calms the body "rest and
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digest"
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________________ are nerve cells that send and receive signals across synapses - ANSWER: ➡
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neurons
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________________ are synpases that communicate connections between neurons - ANSWER: ➡
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neurotransmitters
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________________ is the process when a neuron communicates with a target cell through
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synapse - ANSWER: ➡ synaptic transmission
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What are the lower-level structures of the brain? - ANSWER: ➡ brainstem, medulla, pons,
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thalamus, cerebellum
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________________ is responsible for automatic survival functions - ANSWER: ➡ brainstem
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________________ controlls heartbeat and breathing - ANSWER: ➡ medulla
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