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health disparity -
correct answer ✅Health outcomes and/or opportunities to
achieve optimal health resulting from inequities
Equity -
correct answer ✅treating everyone fairly
Equality -
correct answer ✅treating everyone the same
Social Justice -
correct answer ✅everyone deserves equal economic, political and
social rights and opportunities
Example of health disparity -
correct answer ✅Women having a higher chance for breast cancer
than men is NOT one but an African American women having a
higher chance than a white woman is one
Epidemiology Transition -
correct answer ✅Overtime, as a region develops, that area will
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prior go from infectious disease and transition into others such as
heart disease, cancer, or stroke
Age of Pestilence and Famine -
correct answer ✅Mortality is high and fluctuating, life expectancy
is low and variable, starvation and disease
Receding pandemics -
correct answer ✅Lessening over time
Man made and degenerative disease -
correct answer ✅Long and slow decline
Leading cause of death, 1900 -
correct answer ✅pneumonia, tuberculosis, diarrhea
Leading cause of death 2000 -
correct answer ✅heart disease, cancer, stroke
Percentage of health care dollars spent on chronic conditions -
correct answer ✅75%
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ischemic stroke -
correct answer ✅a type of stroke that occurs when the flow of
blood to the brain is blocked, atherosclerosis
hemmoragic stroke -
correct answer ✅High blood pressure (hypertension) blood vessel
and artery damage due to clots and plaques
Highest risk cancer for male death -
correct answer ✅Lung cancer (most deaths) - prostate (more
cases)
Highest risk cancer for female death -
correct answer ✅Lung cancer (most deaths) - breast cancer (more
cases)
prostate cancer -
correct answer ✅No primary prevention but can screen. Old age.