Health and Medicine Chapter 14

2. consumes 15 or more drinks per week for men, 8 or more for women
4. three preventable lifestyle hazards, smoking , obesity, and substance abuse.
8. examines how societal factors affect the distribution of disease within a population
11. illnesses that suddenly strike and often disappear rapidly
12. average number of years that individuals in a given population and born in a given population and born in a given year are expected to live
14. a network of business enterprises that influences medicine and health care.
15. the global barometer of mental disorders
16. the prevention, management, and treatment of illness

1. a process that defines a nonmedical condition or behavior as an illness, disorder, or disease that requires medical treatment.
3. long term or life long illnesses that develop gradually or are present from birth.
5. a harmful overindulgence in or dependence on a drug or other chemical
6. state of physical, mental, and social well-being.
7. the number of babies under age 1 who die per 1,000 live births
9. a social institution that deals with illness, injury, and other health problems
10. death rate
13. a social role that excuses people from normal obligations because of illness