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The study of disease distribution within populations and the risk factors that
affect increases or decreases in distribution. - 🧠 ANSWER
✔✔Epidemiology
Focuses on risk, data, demographics and outcomes - 🧠 ANSWER
✔✔Population Health
The end result that follows an intervention - 🧠 ANSWER ✔✔Outcome
A group of persons who share one or more traits or characteristics without
necessarily having had any direct social connection.
Examples:
, Female doctors (all are female, all are doctors, all are both) - 🧠 ANSWER
✔✔Aggregate
Composed of multiple aggregates - 🧠 ANSWER ✔✔Community
Compiled information - 🧠 ANSWER ✔✔Data
Measures the existence of all current cases within a time frame
Think: Prev-A-lence = ALL or (P)resence - 🧠 ANSWER ✔✔Prevalence
Measures the appearance of new cases
Think: What is "in" is "new" - 🧠 ANSWER ✔✔Incidence
Is the ongoing, systematic collection, analysis, interpretation, and
dissemination of health data to help guide public health decision making
and action. - 🧠 ANSWER ✔✔Surveillance
Increased chance of poor health outcome - 🧠 ANSWER ✔✔High Risk
The presence of disease/illness in a population or aggregate
Morbidity = disease
The 2 primary measures are incidence and prevalence. - 🧠 ANSWER
✔✔Morbidity