BPK 140 – FINAL Exam Study Guide.
Chapter 1 -
Discipline - answera particular area of study, usually with a specific vocabulary and way of
thinking and acting
Infant Mortality Rate (IMR) - answerdeaths of infants in the first year of life per 1,000 births
Infirmity - answerfrailty or disorde...
Holistic view of health - answer✔considers genetics, physical environment, lifestyle,
psychological, family status that influences health of individuals
Health is influenced by: - answer✔genetics, personal health behaviours, socioeconomic, and
environmental factors
Chapter 2 - answer✔
Blind Experiment - answer✔An experiment in which the subjects do not know whether they are
members of the experimental group or the control group.
Control Group - answer✔In an experiment, the group that is not exposed to the treatment;
contrasts with the experimental group and serves as a comparison for evaluating the effect of the
treatment.
Experimental Group - answer✔the group of experimental subjects who receive the experimental
treatment or manipulation
Double-Blind Experiment - answer✔an experiment in which neither the experimenter nor the
participants know which participants received which treatment
Placebo - answer✔something that has no physiological effect but that subjects in an experiment
cannot distinguish from the real treatment/manipulation
Treatment - answer✔the thing that is done to the experimental group
Epidemiology - answer✔the brand of health science concerned with the distribution and
determinants of disease
Latent Period - answer✔the time from exposure to something (disease causing agent) and the
appearance of results (development of signs/symptoms of a disease)
Hypothesis - answer✔an idea, phrased in a way it can be tested
problems with experiments - answer✔long latent periods, ethical considerations, etc
Chapter 3 - answer✔
causes of death of infectious diseases more prevalent in: - answer✔elderly, infants, those
weakened by substance abuse, compromised immune system function
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