Pubh 6001 - Study guides, Class notes & Summaries

PUBH 6001-Study Guide for Midterm Latest (Questions And Answers). Week 1: How Energy Impacts Our Health • Explain how energy influences human health • The more energy usage a person has, generally the better they are living. Also generally extends our lives. • Energy protects form a lot of things...i.e. Refrigerator has temperature control protecting us from types of contamination that readily killed people a few 100 years ago. • Energy can also influence human health depending on t...

Why is it so difficult to regain speech after a stroke?  Left hemisphere of the brain controls the ability to speak  A stroke can occur when the flow of oxygen-rich blood to a left hemisphere of the brain is blocked  Likewise, bleeding in the brain also can cause strokes if it damages brain cells  Without oxygen, brain cells in the left hemisphere start to die within minutes  Strokes cause damage to the muscles that control speech  Brain may be able to resume functioni...