FINAL Week 8: Epidemiology
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epidemiology - correct Answers ✔✔ -_______________ is the study of the
distribution and determinants of health-related states or events (including
disease), and the application of this study to the control of diseases and
other health problems
epi - correct Answers ✔✔ -upon
demos - correct Answers ✔✔ -people
logos - correct Answers ✔✔ -thought
Descriptive epidemiology - correct Answers ✔✔ -§ Or patterns of health
events in populations in order to characterize health outcomes in terms of
what, who, where, when, how and why: What is the outcome? Who is
affected? Where are they? When do events occur? This focus isà
descriptive epidemiology
person, place, time - correct Answers ✔✔ -Descriptive epidemiology looks
at ______, _______, and ______
person - correct Answers ✔✔ -Descriptive epidemiology: o Gender, age,
race, education, occupation, socioeconomic status, marital status
place - correct Answers ✔✔ -Descriptive epidemiology:
o Chemical, physical, biological environment or population densities or
behavioral/lifestyle
time - correct Answers ✔✔ -Descriptive epidemiology:
o Long term trends, point epidemic, cyclical patterns, event-related clusters
, analytic epidemiology - correct Answers ✔✔ -§ Reference to the goal of
understanding the etiology (or origins and causal factors) of disease; the
broad consideration of many levels of potential determinants if called the
ecological approach
§ Search for
· Cause and effects
· Why and how
· Epidemiologists use analytic epidemiology to quantify the association between
exposures and outcomes and to test hypotheses about casual relationships
o Observational studies, cohort, case control, cross sectional
hippocrates - correct Answers ✔✔ -§ On airs, waters, and places, suggests
environmental and host factors such as behaviors might influence the
development of disease
john snow - correct Answers ✔✔ -§ Father of Epidemiology, cholera
epidemic
Florence Nightingale - correct Answers ✔✔ -§ Statistician, social reformer
and founder of modern nursing
§ Improved outcomes for soldiers
Lillian Wald - correct Answers ✔✔ -§ New York, TB
agent, host, environment - correct Answers ✔✔ -What are the three
components of the epidemiological triangle?
agent - correct Answers ✔✔ -· Agent originally referred to an infectious
agent: a virus, bacterium, parasite, or other microbe. Generally, the agent
must be present for disease to occur; however, presence of that agent
alone is not always sufficient to cause disease.
· A variety of factors influence whether exposure to an organism will result in
disease, including the organism's pathogenicity (ability to cause disease) and dose.
· Over time, the concept of agent has been broadened to include chemical and
physical causes of disease or injury.
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