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*Chapter 1: Introduction to Pathophysiology* -
Secondary Prevention - answer>>>Early detection, screening, and management of
disease
*Illness absent, disease present
example: screenings and testings
Tertiary Prevention - answer>>>Rehabilitation, supportive care, reducing disability,
and restoring effective functioning
*Both illness and disease present
example: education
Epidemiology - answer>>>study of the patterns of disease involving
populations; examining the occurrence, incidence, prevalence, transmission,
and distribution of diseases in large groups of populations/people
Endemic - answer>>>A disease theat is native to a local region
Epidemic - answer>>>When a disease is disseninated to many individals at the
same time (spread to many people at the same time)
Pandemic - answer>>>Epidemics that affect large geographic regions,
perhaps spreading worldwide.
(spread to large geographic areas)
Risk - answer>>>Factor that when present increases the chance of disease
Not stressors, but conditions or situations that increase the likelihood of
encountering a stressor
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Prevalence - answer>>>A measure of disease that allows us to determine a
person's likelihood of having a disease. Therefore, the number of prevalent cases is
the total number of cases of disease existing in a population. A prevalence rate is
the total number of cases of a disease existing in a population divided by the total
population
Indicates how widespread the disease is
Incidence - answer>>>A measure of disease that allows us to determine a
person's probability of being diagnosed with a disease during a given period of
time. Therefore, incidence is the number of newly diagnosed cases of a disease.
An incidence rate is the number of new cases of a disease divided by the
number of persons at risk for the disease.
Conveys information about the risk of contracting the disease.
Ratio - answer>>>The quantitative relation between two amounts showing
the number of times one value contains or is contained within the other.
Primary Prevention - answer>>>Altering susceptibility or reducing exposure
for susceptible persons
*Both illness and disease are
absent example: vaccinations,
healthy lifestyles
*Chapter 2: Homeostasis and Adaptive Responses to Stressors* - answer>>>
Homeostasis - answer>>>A state of being in which all systems are in balance
around a articular ideal "set-point"
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Exhausation - answer>>>Point where body can no longer return to
homeostasis following a prolonged exposure to noxious agents
Allostatic Overload - answer>>>"Cost" of body's organs and tissues for an
excessive or ineffectively regulated allostatic response; effect of "wear and
tear" on the body
Adaptation - answer>>>Adaptation: biopsychosocial process of change in
response to new or altered circumstances, internal or external in origin
Coping: behavioral adaptive response to a stressor using culturally based coping
mechanisms
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Adaptation and coping: terms used interchangeably
Arousal - answer>>>Includes alterations in responsiveness to homeostatic
pressures, sensory stimuli and emotional reactivity, and to changes in motor
activity
Function of Cortisol - answer>>>Primary
glucocorticoid Affects protein metabolism
Promotes appetite and food-seeking
behaviors Has anti-inflammatory
effects
Chemical mediator in the inflammation response of the body
Adrenal corticosteroid critical to maintenance of
homeostasis May synergize or antagonize effects of
catecholamines
*Chapter 3: Cell Structure and Function* - answer>>>
Endocrine Communication - answer>>>Hormones traveling in the
bloodstream Long range signaling
Neurocrine Communication - answer>>>Neurons firing information
through synapses Signals travel a very small distance between neuron and
target cell
Paracrine Communcation - answer>>>Signaling through the extraceullar fluid
between cells in a tissue