Intro to Epidemiology

Determinants are...

• factors or events that are capable of bringing about a change in health

• unknown

• are a made up word

• factors or events that are capable of bringing about a change in pop culture

The distribution of an epidemic may...

• vary from one population to another.

• stay the same no matter where you look.

Epidemiology looks at disease in _______ groups.

• population

• individual

• species

• country

Define Epidemic:

• striking many people at the same time; widely diffused and rapidly spreading

• striking a small group of people at the same time; widely diffused and rapidly spreading

• a small outbreak that is concentrated in one geographical location

• opposite of pandemic

Morbidity deals with -

• illness

• death

• symptoms

• events

Mortality is -

• the number of sick people in a population or group

• the number of deaths in a population or group

Tags

NGSS.HS-LS2-1

Medical Anthropology is -

• concerned with the cultural aspects of health and medicine

• concerned with different foods people eat.

• concerned with the hygienic aspects of health and medicine

• concerned with people's religion

Koch's Postulates -

• state diseases are caused by specific living organisms

• diseases are caused by non-living organisms

• diseases are caused by bad smells

The main goal(s) of epidemiology:

• Improved understanding of the natural history of disease and the factors that influence its distribution .

• Intervention

• Improved understanding of the of disease.

• Vaccination

Tags

NGSS.HS-ESS3-1

Which disease did Dr John Snow help stop the spread of?

• Malaria

• Cholera

• Dengue

• COVID-19