SAS 13 Exam 1 Questions and Answers Already Passed
Antonie van Leeuwenhoek - Answers -came up with the microscope
-found microorganisms
Johanna Westerdijk - Answers - plant pathologist from 1920s
-discovered Dutch Elm Disease
-first female professor in Netherlands
Francis Collins - Answers contribution to the fields of science and/or medicine:
connection to diseases or health conditions:
-found CTFR gene that causes Cystic Fibrosis
Christiaan Eijkman - Answers - Dutch
- observed beriberi- said white rice was toxic
- student of Robert Koch
- won a nobel prize- was wrong- white rice just didn't vitamin B1
John Enders - Answers contribution to the fields of science and/or medicine:
connection to diseases or health conditions:
Andrew Wakefield - Answers contribution to the fields of science and/or medicine:
connection to diseases or health conditions:
Rachel Carson - Answers contribution to the fields of science and/or medicine:
connection to diseases or health conditions:
Albert King - Answers contribution to the fields of science and/or medicine:
connection to diseases or health conditions:
animalcules - Answers -"small animals"
-microorganisms
-found by Antoine van Leeuwenhoek
-200yrs later found that some cause disease
,Factor V Leiden - Answers -discovered in Leiden
-variant of protein factor V which clots blood
-clots blood when blood shouldn't be clotted
the 'Dutch disease' - Answers 1980s discovery of natural gas deposits in North Sea
exports --> wealth from foreign currency --> everything in the country became more expensive -
-> other countries couldn't pay anymore
aka: paradox of plenty, resource curse
disease as a metaphor - Answers ex: dutch disease
"unhealthy marriage"
"ailing business"
Susan songtag- illness as ametaphor
- what is the impact of disease as a metaphor?
disease taxonomy - Answers -a classification scheme for diseases
-many diseases have a lot of different names based on etiology, where in the body it affects,
what happens when one has the disease, who discovered the disease
-ex: tuberculous spondylitis, vertebral caries, and Pott's disease are all the same disease
International Classification of Diseases (ICD) - Answers - resource for names of diseases
- creates some sense of classification
- available online
- codes for special purposes is for newer diseases
- facilitates communication
- used to give mortality stats- since 1977 everyone has had an ICD code on death certificate in
US
- think police scanner codes
- public health/ morbidity data- keeps track of where particular diseases are- keeps track of who
is sick
, - billing purposes- easier
- CDC collects data
ICD-Clinical Modification - Answers - a modified ICD-10
- a diff version
- used a lot in hospitals
- complex verbiage that captures lots of info
medical coding - Answers - is a job
- codes in ICD
mortality - Answers how many people die from a disease. ICD helps keep track of this since
codes are put on death certificates
morbidity (disease prevalence and incidence) - Answers number of people that suffer from a
particular disease -- > important for tracking diseases and the spread
prevalence - Answers all patients suffering from a particular disease
# of cases/ # of people in the US
~2% people in US cases of COVID
incidence - Answers number of new cases over a defined period of time
body systems - Answers -muscular
-digestive
-urinary
-nervous
-reproductive
-circulatory
-hormonal
-lymphatic (immune)
-respiratory
skeletal
Antonie van Leeuwenhoek - Answers -came up with the microscope
-found microorganisms
Johanna Westerdijk - Answers - plant pathologist from 1920s
-discovered Dutch Elm Disease
-first female professor in Netherlands
Francis Collins - Answers contribution to the fields of science and/or medicine:
connection to diseases or health conditions:
-found CTFR gene that causes Cystic Fibrosis
Christiaan Eijkman - Answers - Dutch
- observed beriberi- said white rice was toxic
- student of Robert Koch
- won a nobel prize- was wrong- white rice just didn't vitamin B1
John Enders - Answers contribution to the fields of science and/or medicine:
connection to diseases or health conditions:
Andrew Wakefield - Answers contribution to the fields of science and/or medicine:
connection to diseases or health conditions:
Rachel Carson - Answers contribution to the fields of science and/or medicine:
connection to diseases or health conditions:
Albert King - Answers contribution to the fields of science and/or medicine:
connection to diseases or health conditions:
animalcules - Answers -"small animals"
-microorganisms
-found by Antoine van Leeuwenhoek
-200yrs later found that some cause disease
,Factor V Leiden - Answers -discovered in Leiden
-variant of protein factor V which clots blood
-clots blood when blood shouldn't be clotted
the 'Dutch disease' - Answers 1980s discovery of natural gas deposits in North Sea
exports --> wealth from foreign currency --> everything in the country became more expensive -
-> other countries couldn't pay anymore
aka: paradox of plenty, resource curse
disease as a metaphor - Answers ex: dutch disease
"unhealthy marriage"
"ailing business"
Susan songtag- illness as ametaphor
- what is the impact of disease as a metaphor?
disease taxonomy - Answers -a classification scheme for diseases
-many diseases have a lot of different names based on etiology, where in the body it affects,
what happens when one has the disease, who discovered the disease
-ex: tuberculous spondylitis, vertebral caries, and Pott's disease are all the same disease
International Classification of Diseases (ICD) - Answers - resource for names of diseases
- creates some sense of classification
- available online
- codes for special purposes is for newer diseases
- facilitates communication
- used to give mortality stats- since 1977 everyone has had an ICD code on death certificate in
US
- think police scanner codes
- public health/ morbidity data- keeps track of where particular diseases are- keeps track of who
is sick
, - billing purposes- easier
- CDC collects data
ICD-Clinical Modification - Answers - a modified ICD-10
- a diff version
- used a lot in hospitals
- complex verbiage that captures lots of info
medical coding - Answers - is a job
- codes in ICD
mortality - Answers how many people die from a disease. ICD helps keep track of this since
codes are put on death certificates
morbidity (disease prevalence and incidence) - Answers number of people that suffer from a
particular disease -- > important for tracking diseases and the spread
prevalence - Answers all patients suffering from a particular disease
# of cases/ # of people in the US
~2% people in US cases of COVID
incidence - Answers number of new cases over a defined period of time
body systems - Answers -muscular
-digestive
-urinary
-nervous
-reproductive
-circulatory
-hormonal
-lymphatic (immune)
-respiratory
skeletal
