Community Health- ch.3- Epidemiology

The number of events that occur in a given population in a given period of time is a:

• rate
• case
• pandemic.
• notifiable disease.

Studies that seek to describe the extent of disease in regard to person, time, and place are:

• descriptive studies.
• analytic studies.
• observational studies.
• case/control studies.

A primary care physician is concerned with the course of a disease in an individual, while an epidemiologist is concerned with the course of disease in a population.

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An unexpectedly large number of cases of an illness, specific health-related behavior, or other health-related event in a particular population is defined as a pandemic.

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A disease that lasts three months or less is a chronic disease.

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The average number of years a person from a specific cohort is projected to live from a given point in time is his or her life expectancy.

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The number of years of healthy life expected, on average, in a given population is the disability-adjusted life years (DALYs).

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The rate of an illness in a population is the natality rate.

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Sometimes notifiable diseases are not reported to the local health department because patients recover without a diagnosis being confirmed.

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