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M2 U1 Topic 1 Flashcards

1
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The study of the distribution and determinants of diseases and injuries of populations

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Epidemiology

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Epi=
Demos=
Logia=

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Upon
The people/ democracy
Study of

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3
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The quantitative analysis of the circumstances under which diseases processes occur in population groups and factors affecting them.

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Epidemiology

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4
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It includes the surveillance, observation, hypothesis testing, analytic research, and experiments.

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Study of epidemiology

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5
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Occurances of disease in clear excess of normalcy

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Epidemic

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6
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Epidemic that affects several countries or continents

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Pandemic

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7
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Disease that is consistently present in the environment

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Endemic

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8
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The normal or usual rate of disease

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Endemic

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9
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Encompasses all unfavorable changes

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Disease

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10
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T/F: According to epidemiology, disease, illness, and ill health are not randomly distributed in human populations.

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True

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11
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The collective actions to improve population health.

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Public Health

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12
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Concerned with reaching an understanding of disease through the comparison of the pattern of disease in population overtime, between places and in different types of people

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Epidemiology

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13
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They evaluate effectiveness and efficiency of health services.

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Epidemiologists

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14
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Identification of etiologic or causal factors:

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-Can cause reduction or elimination of exposure to these factors
-Vaccines and treatments
-Tracing etiology

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14
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The epidemiologic study of infectious or communicable diseases.

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Infectious disease epidemiology

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15
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Disease due to an infectious agent or its product

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Infectious disease

16
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Era when epidemiology also focused on chronic diseases, as infectious disease cases decreased.

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1940s and 1950s

17
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Diseases that have prolonged conditon

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Chronic

18
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It focuses on bettering the wellbeing of women, children, families, and investigating the risk factors that affect the health outcome of these groups.

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Maternal and Child Health Epidemiology

19
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It only developed in late 1960s due to increased cases of work-related injuries

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Injuries and injury control

20
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Chemical and physical agents, microbiological pathogens, social conditions, climate change

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Environmental epidemiology

21
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It studies the association between nutrition and health outcomes and may focus on diet and physical activity

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Nutritional Epidemiology

22
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Involved in research in distribution and determinants of health behaviors and how they are associated with communicable diseases

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Health behaviors epidemiology

23
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The 1st epidemiologist, associated thoughts and behavioral issues that with disease

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Hippocrates

24
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Showed that diseases can spread via direct contact, by air, and via contaminated clothing

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Girolamo Fracastoro

25
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The statistical study of human populations

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Demography

26
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One of the first demographers, presented population and mortality statistics in London during the plague

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John Graunt

27
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A Scottish physician that prescribed different diets to sailors to test hypothesis that scurvy is because something was lacking in their diet (Vit. C)

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James Lind

28
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English surgeon that noticed coal soot in sores of male chimney workers, establishing that environmental carcinogens may cause cancer.

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Percivall Pott

29
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Considered as one of the founders of modern epidemiology, performed several epidemiologic practices such as testing social hypotheses, relating population density and mortality rates, mapping deaths, monitoring outbreaks, and related water sources and cholera.

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William Farr

30
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Studied sanitation issues in the UK, idea that disease was directly related to people’s living conditions, need for public health and social reform

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Sir Edwin Chadwick

31
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The Father of Modern Epidemiology

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John Snow

32
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London physician, applied geographic counting of cases of cholera in Broad Street, had the water pump removed.

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John Snow

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