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What is the definition of health?
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Health = state of complete physical, mental, and social well-being
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What is the definition of disease?
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Disease = deleterious change in body's condition in response to an environmental factor
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What is the definition of morbidity?
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Morbidity = the rate of disease of proportion of diseased persons in given locality
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What is the definition of mortality?
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Mortality = subject to death
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What are Disability-Adjusted Life Years?
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DALYs = measure that combines both premature death and loss of healthy life to assess impact of illness or disability
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What are the leading global causes of death?
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Heart disease, depression, traffic accidents, stroke, chronic lung disease
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How will infectious diseases of past effect us in the future?
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Most = less of an impactException - tuberculosis (developing antibiotic resistance)
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What are some risks of overcrowding?
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War, violence
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Emergent and infectious diseases are responsible for what fraction of mortality?
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1/3
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What is an emergent disease?
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New disease or...Old disease occurring in new places / people w/ new presentations or new resistance to treatments
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What are some examples of emergent diseases?
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Bird Flu, Ebola, West Nile Virus, Dengue fever, cholera, drug-resistant tuberculosis
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What factors contribute to the spread of contagious diseases?
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1) High population densities2) Settlers pushing into remote areas3) Human-caused environmental change4) Speed and frequency of moden travel5) Contact w/ water or food contaminated w/ human waste
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What is conservation medicine?
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Studies impacts of environmental change on both human and non-human communities
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What is an example of conservation medicine at KU?
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KU's Biodiversity Institute, received grant from CDC to study "bird flu"1) Study and predict spread of viruses2) requires knowledge of bird communities and migration patterns3) Model niches of host birds
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What does antibiotic and pesticide resistance lead to?
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Leads to re-emergence of diseases such as...1) Antibiotic resistant TB, flesh-eating bacteria2) Malaria returning (mosquito = pesticide resistant)3) MRSA, methicillin-resistant - appears on the rise, fatal, hard to control
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