ANTC67H3 Lecture Notes - Lecture 6: Statin, Radiation Therapy, Positive And Negative Predictive Values
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Prevention many causes of disease are preventable. Migrant study: rate of gastric cancer is lower in people born in hawaii to. Japanese parents than in people born in japan. Usa, rate of gastric cancer in people of japanese heritage is similar to that of general population. This pattern suggest the importance of diet in early life. Causation framework: epidemiology helps identify modifiable causes of disease, we can look at risk profile of individual to determine chances of disease. Level of prevention: primordial: (focuses by using public health policies and health promotion) Aim: establish and maintain condition that minimize hazard to health. Phase of disease targeted: underlying economic social and environmental condition leading to causation. Action: measure that decreases the emergence of adverse environment, economic, social and behavioural condition. Example: to prevent aids; creation health education program in school and policies: primary: aim: reduce the incidence of new onset of disease. Phase of disease targeted: specific causal factor.
