PNS Flashcards
(46 cards)
Five areas of measuring pop health
Death Disease Disability Discomfort Distress
Morbidity
illness
injury
DALY
Mortality
death
Incidence
new cases/pop at risk
Prevalence
total # cases/ pop at risk
Crude mortality rate
of deaths/#at risk of dying
Age-adjusted mortality
of deaths in group/# in group
Infatn mortailty
kids die under 1/number live births (100)
Epidemeology
study of the distribution and determiniants of hwalth and application to ctrl health problems
Epidemiological triad
Agent, Host, Environmebt (Vector)
Andemic
@ steday state
Spidemic
spike above norm
Pandemic
Spidemic, multiple continents
Index case
1st case ever
Sentinel case
1st case found
disability
deviation from norm
morbidity
disease
mortality
death
steps in investigating disease outbreak
define distribution things in common determine/test hypotehsis use to control disease
disease suveillance
look for health data and death to watch disease rates
decriptive data
qualitative data
Analytical data
quantitative
Experiemntal data
from an experiment
attack rate
people @ risk who get it/people who don’t