Exam 2: Thinking About Individual and Population Health

What are three reasons why age is a poor predictor of population health?

The Multiple Risk Factors Intervention Trial conducted in the United States (1982) found that ________.

What are the stages of demographic transition and what are the major features of each stage?

Describe the contribution of the major thinkers to the population health perspective that date back to the nineteenth century. How did their ideas contribute to our understanding of population health?

Discuss the individual-level analysis of health and disease. Identify some shortcomings of this approach.

The concept "gender" is ________.

Regular vigorous exercise if an example of a ________.

John Snow's contribution to the study of population health was ________.

The epidemiologic transition refers to ________.

The risk factor model has two variants: a biomedical variant and a behavioural variant.

The population health level of analysis will focus on an individual's diet, level of exercise, and use of safety equipment such as a bike helmet.

The concept of "nesting" and the related idea of an "effects cascade" suggest that only factors acting immediately and directly on the individual determine health effects.

Research shows that changing people's habits is the easiest and the most efficient way to improve population health.

________ developed the concept of "social facts."

Age is not a powerful or precise predictor of health because ________.

Incidence is ________.

The following statement regarding sex is TRUE: ________.

The demographic transition has three distinct phases.