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Descriptive Epidemiology deals with the frequency and the distribution of risk factors in populations and
enables to assess the extent of a disease. It can thus provide hypotheses of
etiologic research
Analytical Epidemiology aims to research and study risk and protector factors of diseases.
Pandemic An epidemic occurring worldwide, or over a very wide area, crossing international
boundaries, and usually affecting a large number of people.
Ex.. 1918 influenza (Spanish flu)
Distribution The occurrence of diseases and other health outcomes varies in populations, with
some subgroups of the populations more frequently affected than others.
Epidemic sudden increase in occurrence of disease in a population
usually within a specific geographic region or population
Exposures Related to determinants,which pertain either to contact with a disease-causing
factor or to the amount of the factor that impinges upon a group or individuals.
Determinants determinants Any factor that brings about change in a health condition or other
defined characteristic.
Morbidity illness due to a specific disease or health condition
Mortality Death, usually on a large scale
Quanification Refers to counting the cases of illness or other health outcomes. Denotes the use
of statistics to describe the occurrence of health outcomes and measure their
association with exposures
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Hippocrates departed from superstitious reasons for disease outbreaks Wrote On Airs, Waters,
and Places in 400 BC
Suggested disease might be associated with environmental factors
John Snow (1813-1858)An English anesthesiologist who innovated several of the key
epidemiologic methods that remain valid and in use today
Believed that cholera was transmitted by contaminated water and was able to
demonstrate this association.
Paracelsus (1493-1541) was one of the founders of the field of toxicology.
The dose-response relationship
The notion of target organ specificity of chemicals
John Graunt is considered by many historians to have founded the science of demography, the
statistical study of human populations. He analyzed the vital statistics of the
citizens of London and wrote a book regarding those figures that greatly
influenced the demographers of his day.
Ramazzini (1633-1714) is regarded as the founder of the field of occupational medicine.
He authored De Morbis Artificum Diatriba (Diseases of Workers), published in
1700.
Edward Jenner (1749-1823) developed a method for smallpox vaccination in 1796.
William Farr (1807-1883)Appointed "Compiler of Abstracts" in England, 1839
Developed a more sophisticated system for codifying medical conditions
Examined possible linkage between mortality rates and population density
(defined as number of persons per square mile)
Robert Koch (1843-1910), a German physician
Published Die Aetiologie der Tuberkulose in 1882
Koch's postulates demonstrated the association between a microorganism and a
disease.
Alexander Flemming (1881-1955) discovered the anti-microbial properties of the mold Penicillium
notatum in 1928.
Antibiotic became available toward the end of World War II
carrier individual - potential source of infection for others
can be infected or transferring from infected person to another
etiologic agent etiologic agent pathogen responsible for diseas
reservoir primary habitat which the agent is normally found and from which infection may
result
vector living transmitters of pathogen
vehicle non-living transmitters
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HOSA- Epidemiology Practice Test Hosa Epidemiology HOSA Pathophysiology Epidem
50 terms 196 terms 276 terms 67 terms
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Terms in this set (864)
Descriptive Epidemiology deals with the frequency and the distribution of risk factors in populations and
enables to assess the extent of a disease. It can thus provide hypotheses of
etiologic research
Analytical Epidemiology aims to research and study risk and protector factors of diseases.
Pandemic An epidemic occurring worldwide, or over a very wide area, crossing international
boundaries, and usually affecting a large number of people.
Ex.. 1918 influenza (Spanish flu)
Distribution The occurrence of diseases and other health outcomes varies in populations, with
some subgroups of the populations more frequently affected than others.
Epidemic sudden increase in occurrence of disease in a population
usually within a specific geographic region or population
Exposures Related to determinants,which pertain either to contact with a disease-causing
factor or to the amount of the factor that impinges upon a group or individuals.
Determinants determinants Any factor that brings about change in a health condition or other
defined characteristic.
Morbidity illness due to a specific disease or health condition
Mortality Death, usually on a large scale
Quanification Refers to counting the cases of illness or other health outcomes. Denotes the use
of statistics to describe the occurrence of health outcomes and measure their
association with exposures
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Hippocrates departed from superstitious reasons for disease outbreaks Wrote On Airs, Waters,
and Places in 400 BC
Suggested disease might be associated with environmental factors
John Snow (1813-1858)An English anesthesiologist who innovated several of the key
epidemiologic methods that remain valid and in use today
Believed that cholera was transmitted by contaminated water and was able to
demonstrate this association.
Paracelsus (1493-1541) was one of the founders of the field of toxicology.
The dose-response relationship
The notion of target organ specificity of chemicals
John Graunt is considered by many historians to have founded the science of demography, the
statistical study of human populations. He analyzed the vital statistics of the
citizens of London and wrote a book regarding those figures that greatly
influenced the demographers of his day.
Ramazzini (1633-1714) is regarded as the founder of the field of occupational medicine.
He authored De Morbis Artificum Diatriba (Diseases of Workers), published in
1700.
Edward Jenner (1749-1823) developed a method for smallpox vaccination in 1796.
William Farr (1807-1883)Appointed "Compiler of Abstracts" in England, 1839
Developed a more sophisticated system for codifying medical conditions
Examined possible linkage between mortality rates and population density
(defined as number of persons per square mile)
Robert Koch (1843-1910), a German physician
Published Die Aetiologie der Tuberkulose in 1882
Koch's postulates demonstrated the association between a microorganism and a
disease.
Alexander Flemming (1881-1955) discovered the anti-microbial properties of the mold Penicillium
notatum in 1928.
Antibiotic became available toward the end of World War II
carrier individual - potential source of infection for others
can be infected or transferring from infected person to another
etiologic agent etiologic agent pathogen responsible for diseas
reservoir primary habitat which the agent is normally found and from which infection may
result
vector living transmitters of pathogen
vehicle non-living transmitters
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