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M1: Epidemiology Flashcards

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Often there is a frustrating delay between acquiring ___________ and applying this evidence to health policy.

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Epidemiological evidence

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A fundamental science of public health. Has made major contributions in improving population health. Essential to the process of identifying and mapping emerge diseases. Study of causes and distribution of disease in human population.

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Epidemiology

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Epidemiology uses _________ methods to study diseases in human populations to inform prevention and control efforts.

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Quantitative

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Defined by Last as the study of the distribution and determinants of health-related stated or events in specified populations and the application of this study to the prevention and control of health problems. Concerned not only with death, illness and disability but also with more positive health states and most importantly with the means to improve health.

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Epidemiology

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In epidemiology, the assumption is that the disease do not occur ________, but follow ________ patterns that can be studied and expressed in terms of what, where, who, when, how, why and what’s next.

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Randomly. Predictable.

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The goal of Epidemiology is to identify subgroups of the population who are at ___________ for disease than usual and who will benefit the most from disease specific interventions.

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Higher risk

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Features of Epidemiology: all findings must relate to a defined _________.

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Population

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Features of Epidemiology: A target population is specified about which the _________ are to be drawn.

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Conclusions

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Features of Epidemiology: Occasionally, measurements can be mad e on the ___________.

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Full target population

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Features of Epidemiology: more commonly, ________ can only be made on a study sample selected from the target population.

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Observations

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Features of Epidemiology: confidence in the conclusions drawn from the sample depends in part on the __________.

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Sample size

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Features of Epidemiology: ________ can be unrepresentative just by chance but these errors can be computed statistically.

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Small samples

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Features of Epidemiology: systematic sampling errors can be avoided through ___________ process by which member of the target population has a known probability of being included. However, the process requires an ___________ of all members of the target population, which may not be feasible in all cases.

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Random selection. Enumeration/census.

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Features of Epidemiology: the selection is thus often partially random meaning within the target population, an accessible subset(aka _______) is defined. The study sample is then _________ chosen from the study population.

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Study population. Randomly.

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Features of Epidemiology: Oriented to the ______ rather than individuals.

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Groups

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Features of Epidemiology: May guide decisions to individuals but they relate primarily to ______.

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Groups

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Epidemiology as a tool: searching for _________. Ex: genetic & environmental factors affects good health which may lead to ill health.

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Causality

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Epidemiology as a tool: Determining the ________. Ex: good health to subclinical changes to clinical disease which may either lead to death or recovery.

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Natural history

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Epidemiology as a tool: Determining the ________ of the population. Pie charts & graphs.

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Health status

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Epidemiology as a tool: Evaluating __________. Ill health, treatment of medical care and health promotion, preventive measures & public health services all affects Good Health.

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Interventions

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Epidemiologic Studies: Choosing the appropriate __________ is a crucial step in epidemiological investigation.

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Study design

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Epidemiologic Studies: Each study designs has its _______ and ________.

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Strengths. Weaknesses.

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Epidemiologic Studies: ________ must consider all sources of bias and confounding and strive to reduce them.

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Epidemiologists

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Epidemiologic Studies: __________ are important in epidemiology, as in other sciences.

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Ethical issues

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Allow nature to take its course. The investigator measures but does not intervene.

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Observational

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Kinds of Observational Studies: limited to a description of the occurrence of a disease in a population. Usually the first step in epidemiologic study.

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Descriptive

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Types of Descriptive studies

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Case report & Case series

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Kinds of Observational Studies: Analyses the relationship between health status and other variables.

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Analytical

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Involves an active attempt to change a disease determinant, such as an exposure or a behaviour- or the progress of a disease through treatment, and are similar in design to experiments in other sciences. Subject to extra constraints, because health of the population may be at stake.

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Experimental/Interventional

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Examples of Experimental/Interventional

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RCT, Field trials & Community trials “RFC”

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A state of complete physical, mental and social well being and not merely the absence of disease or infirmity.

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Health

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Measuring Health & Disease. Fundamental to the practice of __________. A variety of measures are used to characterize overall health of the population.

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Epidemiology

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is not fully measured in many parts of the world, and this lack of information poses a major challenge to epidemiologists

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Population health status

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People who are susceptible to a given disease and can be define by demographic, geographic or environmental factors.

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Population at risk

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Represents the rate of occurrence of new cases arising in a given period in a specified population

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Incidence

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Frequency of existing cases in a defined population at a given point of in time

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Prevalence

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Denominator for incidence & prevalence

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Population at risk

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Numerator is # of new cases of disease in a specified period of time

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Incidence

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of existing cases of disease at a given point of time

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Prevalence

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Focus is on the presence or absence of the disease. Time period is arbitrary, rather a snapshot in time.

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Prevalence

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Focuses whether the event is a new case. Time of onset of the disease.

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Incidence

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Expresses the risk of being ill. The main measure of acute disease or conditions, but also used for chronic diseases. More useful for studies of causation.

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Incidence

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Estimates the probability of the population being ill at the period of time being studied. Useful in the study of burden of chronic diseases and implication for health services.

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Prevalence

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Is often expressed as cases per 100 (percentage) or per 1000 population and P has to be multiplied by the appropriate factor

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Prevalence

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Prevalence data was collected for one point of time

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Point prevalence rate

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Total # of cases at any time during a specified period dived by the number of cases at any time during a specified period, divided by the population at risk midway through the period.

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Period prevalence rate

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Total number of persons known to have had the disease for atleast some part of their lives

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Lifetime prevalence

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Prevalence studies do not usually provide strong evidence of _______ because it is influenced by a lot of factors unrelated to the cause of the disease.

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Causality

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The units of incidence rate must always include a unit of

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Time

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Done by dividing number of people who gets a disease during a specified period to number of people free of the disease in the population at risk at the beginning of the period.

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Cumulative Incidence

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A measure of disease severity and is defined as the proportion of cases with a specified disease or condition who die within a specified time. Usually expressed in percentage.

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Case Fatality

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Does not take into account that the chance of dying varies according to age, sex, race, socioeconomic class and other factors. Comparisons of mortality rates between groups of diverse age structure are usually based on age-standardized rates.

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Crude Mortality Rate

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Death rates expressed for specific groups in a population defined by age

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Age Specific Death Rates

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Is a ratio of the number of deaths from a given cause per 100 or 1000 total deaths in the same period. It does not express the risk of members of a population contracting or dying from a disease.

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Proportionate Mortality (PMR)

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Multiplier for PMR

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100

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Number of deaths in a year of children less than 1 year of age divided by number of live births in the same year multiplied by 1000

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Infant mortality rate

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Number of maternal deaths in a given geographic area in a given year divided by number of live births that occurred among the population of the given geographic area during the same year

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Maternal mortality rate

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Variables for Epidemiological Information

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Person, Place & Time “PPT”

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Most important factor considered when describing the occurrence of any disease because this specific death rates usually show greater variation than rates defined by almost any other personal attribute.

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Age

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Numerous epidemiological data have shown the difference of this in a wide array of health phenomena, including morbidity & mortality.

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Sex

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It has become an important variable because of ambiguous characteristics that tend to overlap with nativity or the place of origin of the individual and religion. It is believed that this is a social and cultural construct.

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Race/Ethnicity

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It is a descriptive term for a person’s position in society formulated as a composite measure of three interrelated dimensions; a person’s income level, education level and type occupation.

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Socioeconomic status

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Refer to gradual changes in the frequency of disease over long periods of time usually noted in chronic diseases

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Secular trends

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Are increases and decreases in the frequency of the disease or other phenomenon over a period of several years or within a year usually exhibited by many infectious diseases.

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Cyclic/Seasonal trends

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May indicate the response of a group of circumscribed in place to a common source of infection, contamination or other etiologic factor to which they were exposed almost simultaneously.

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Point epidemics

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Is a closely grouped series of events or cases of a disease or other health related phenomena well defined distribution patterns in relation to time or place or bothxddssewswse

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Clustering

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Harmful effects of an outbreak: High _______ & _______.

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Morbidity & Mortality

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Harmful effects of an outbreak: Decrease in _______.

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Economy

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Harmful effects of an outbreak: Bad _______.

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Publicity

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Harmful effects of an outbreak: Outbreaks are _______.

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Expensive

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