ch 2 global health concepts and terms

the range of personal, social, economic, and environmental factors which determine the health status of individuals or populations

the conditions in which people are born, grow, live, work, and age

personal and inborn features (genetic makeup, sex, and age), lifestyle factors( individual health practices and behavior( smoking, alchol, diet, excersie), social support from family friends and comunities, culture, living and working conditions (housing, acess to safe water and sanitation, acess to nutious food and health care services; acess to health services, sociecomomic factors( culture, education, and SES status

refers to a persons economic, social, and work status; people w/ higher educational attinementhave better economic opportunities, SES status and health; education brings knowlsge of good health practicwea, proives oppotunites for gainign skills, getting bwttwer employment, rasining income and social staus

culture shspes how one feels about health and illness, how one uses health services, and thwe health practices one engages in, along with gender roles ascribws to women in different socitites;

ways familes nourshish and acere for infants and young children; nutrional status, enrollment in schoolpoor nutrion, povery, abuse and disrimation can impact them

data helps us know what health conditopns people suffer from, extent thedse conditons cause people to be sick, who and where people are getting infected, and burden of diff. health conditions

measures how long a person born today cn be expectrdd to live if current mortality trends were to continue for the rest of that person's life; how long a perwson born today casn be expected to live

measure of the risk of death that is associated w/ childbirth; the number of womenwho die as a redult of pregnancy and childboirth compliations per 100,000 live births in a given year

the number of deaths of infants under age 1 per 1,000 liuve births in a given year; measures how many children younger than 1 year of age will die for every 1000 who were born alive

the number of deaths to infants younger than 28 days of age in a given year per 1000 births that yeqr

probalbitly that a newborn will die before reaching age 5 per 1000 live births

sickness or any depature, subjective or objective, froma physcilogial or physiclogical state of wellbeing

death

temporary or long-term reduction in a person's capacity to function

number of people suffering from a certain health condition over a specified period; measures chances of having a disease

the proportion of the population that os diesdeas at a singlr point in time

measures how many people get a disease for a specified number of people at rosks for a given period of time

intervening before health effects occur through measures like vaccination. aktering risky behavior, and bannijng substance associasted w/ hrsalth conditions

screening to identify diseases in the earliest satges before onset and sighs though messures like mammography

managing diseases pot diagnosis to stop and slow disease progession

accurayl records birthss, deaths, snf cuases of death

peevalence as the pool of people w/ a disease at a particula rtime and icidence as th flow of new cases of people w/ that disease into that pool