Hs 350 exam - Study guides, Class notes & Summaries

Why Parkinson's Disease and Alzheimer's Disease - ANS Incidence of both increases with age Population is aging (2030, proportion of the population >65, 20%) Huge impact on health care (NIA projecting 14 million with AD by 2040) Alzheimer's disease - ANS Most common cause of dementia (65%) Begins after 60, risk goes up with age PROGRESSIVE loss of cognitive function ---memory ---judgment and reasoning ---movement coordination Central Nervous System Involveme...

T or F: It is common to be infected with HIV through kissing because HIV is found in saliva. - Answer False T or F: In the 1980s, condom use and clean needle programs were highly favorable and widely accepted public health strategies to prevent HIV transmission. - Answer False T or F: Heterosexual men and women cannot get HIV. - Answer False T or F: There is no cure for HIV. - Answer True T or F: HIV was identified as the virus causing AIDS within a few days of the first identified A...

What tissues/ organs are part of the immune system? - Answer -tonsils and adenoids -thymus -appendix -lymphatic vessels -lymph nodes -spleen -peyer's patches -bone marrow Describe the basic functions of the immune system - Answer -Innate immunity - nonspecific -Includes "danger/damage signals" -Specific immunity - recognition of foreign "antigens" -Vast capacity for recognition of foreign antigens (gene rearrangement) -Immunologic "memory" -Tolerance for self Answer...

Cellular Stress - Answer cellular response to insult and injury Cells can adapt by changing their... - Answer size, number, and type Size changes of cellular response - Answer Atrophy and Hypertrophy Atrophy - Answer decrease in cell size Occurs under conditions of: -decreased workload/tissue demand -adverse environmental conditions In response to: -decreased stimulation (from use, nerves, or hormones) -malnutrition -ischemia Hypertrophy - Answer Increase in cell size (and f...

epidemiology definition - Answer study of the distribution and determinants of health-related states or events in specified populations and the application of this study to control health problems koch's four postulates - Answer 1. present in disease 2. capable of growth in pure cultures in lab 3. cause disease when injected into healthy animal 4. be rendered from experimental animal WHO leading cause of death - Answer heart disease host - Answer genetic susceptibility nutrition h...

Which of the following is FALSE about rabies? - Answer HELPFUL TO KNOW: 1-3 months before symptoms expected (flu-like), Must have contact with someone/something, Regarding WARTS, which of the following statements is FALSE? - Answer HINT: They do spread through touch, Those that cause warts are not associated with cancer Hep B may be spread by each of the following routes of transmission EXCEPT - Answer HINT: it DOES spread through sexual transmission Herpes infection could result in sev...

which characteristics sign of inflammation is NOT correctly associated with its cause - Answer Tumor-abnormal cell accumulation rubor-redness dolar-pain calor- heat This dimeric class of antibody (present as a dimer) often occurs in mucosal secretions of the respiratory tract - Answer IgA Monocytes secrete antibody - Answer IgM These two cell types are considered two of the major phagocytic cells (can perform phagocytosis) - Answer neutrophils and monocytes/macrophages as ...

Counterintelligence - Answer eeks to protect a society (and especially its intelligence capabilities) against any harm that might be inflicted by hostile intelligence services. classified - Answer Much of what goes on in intelligence is secret aka _____ Information - Answer efers to anything that can be known regardless of how it is discovered Intelligence - Answer refers to information that meets the stated or understood needs of policy makers and has been collected, processed, and nar...

corroborates - Answer Collection is the bedrock of intelligence as it supports and __________ analysis. Colleciton - Answer INTS belong to the ____________ process of the Intelligence Cycle. 1.Nature of information sought. 2.Ability to acquire it. - Answer The process required to collect depends on: Intelligence Surveillance Reconnaissance - Answer The military refers to collection in terms of "ISR" What is ISR? T - Answer Top sheet indicates level of classification for entire...

Signs - Answer Direct observations by an examiner Symptoms - Answer Complaints reported by the patients Syndrome - Answer A collection of clinical signs, symptoms, and data (vs disease) Etiology - Answer The cause of disease (vs risk factor) Pathology - Answer The study of changes in bodily structure and function that occur as a result of disease Epidemiology - Answer Study of the distribution and determinants of health-related states or events in specified populations 5 criter...