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21 Cards in this Set
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Top causes of death
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1. Cardiovascular
2. Cancer 3. Stroke 4. COPD |
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Def. public health
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what we as a society do collectively to assure the conditions for people to be healthy
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Dr. John Snow
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Father of epidemiology
Researched cholera in London "Mapping" Found disease came form dumping feces in the Thames |
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Lemuel Shattuck
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1850 health report for the Commonwealth of Massachusetts - outlined current public health system
recommended: - govt health boards - collecting stats - sanitation - disease research - health education |
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Louis Pasteur
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1862 - The Germ Theory of Disease
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Epidemic
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An unexpectedly large number of cases of disease in a particular population
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Endemic disease
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A disease that occurs regularly in a population as a matter of course
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Pandemic
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An outbreak of disease over a large area
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Infant Mortality rate
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# of children 0-1 yr / 1000 births
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Birth rate
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Live Births/Total Population *1000
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Acute vs. chronic
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Acute has peak symptoms within 3 months
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Morbidity Rate
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The rate of illness or injury in a population
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Chain of infection
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Pathogen
Reservoir Portal of exit Transmission Portal of entry New host |
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GAS
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General Adaptation Syndrome - reaction to stress
Three stages 1. Alarm reaction stage 2. Resistance 3. Exhaustion |
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Mortality Rate
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Deaths/Population
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Prevalence rate
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All cases/Population
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Attack rate
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An incidence rate calculated for a particular population for a single disease and expressed as a %
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Synar Amendment
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Keeps cigs away from kids
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Specific death rates
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(category)/(population or births) *100,000
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Crude vs. adjusted rates
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Crude *1000, Adjusted *100,000
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Categories of old
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65+ old
65-74 young-old old-old 75-84 oldest-old 85+ |
