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Acute Communicable diseases Acute = sudden onset, relatively severe, short duration of s/s. Communicable = transmitted from person to person / throughout the population; contagious. Flu, PNA, lyme disease, mumps, measles, cholera Acute Noncommunicable diseases Tetanus, legionnaires, anthr...

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NSG 522 Biostats & Epid- Pt 2, final
exam, focus on epidemiology
Questions and Correct Answers |
Latest Update
Acute Communicable diseases


✓ Acute = sudden onset, relatively severe, short duration of s/s.

✓ Communicable = transmitted from person to person / throughout the

population; contagious.




Flu, PNA, lyme disease, mumps, measles, cholera




Acute Noncommunicable diseases


✓ Tetanus, legionnaires, anthrax




Chronic Communicable diseases


✓ Chronic = less severe but long / continuous duration, lasts for a long

time.




Cancer (cervical),leprosy, polio, syphilis, TB




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Chronic Noncommunicable diseases


✓ ETOH, CA, DM, heart diseases, paralysistanus




Epidemiological triad


✓ Agent --> Host --> Environment.

Think about where interventions should be directed.




BEINGS model


✓ Builds out key components of epidem triad and IDs the multitude of

host & environmental factors that influence development of disease




Biological, Behavioral- bio = age, gender, weight, bone density; behav =

smoker, ETOH, sexual activity, driving habits




Environmental




Immunological- vax status, herd immun (>85%), cocooning




Nutritional




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Genetic




Services, Social, Spiritual - hlth services = risk of unnecessary procedures,

medical errors, etc.




Web of causation


✓ depicts the interaction of causative & preventative factors; depicts

the complexity or multicausality of disease




Bradford Hill


✓ ~ criteria for determining causation:

Strength of association


Consistency


Specificity


Temporal relationship


Biological gradient


Plausibility


Coherence


Analogy


Experimental evidence

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