HRS 1017 Lecture Notes - Lecture 4: Biological Agent, Double Burden, Kidney Disease
24 Jan 2020
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Look at homework for style of questions. Quiz will give background material and ask 3-4 questions. More often the host or the environment changes. The first goal is to contain what"s going on by looking at the chain of infection. The second goal is to figure out how the outbreak happened in the first place. Heart disease is the largest health issue in global health today. Difference between approaches to understanding infectious and chronic disease. Infectious and chronic diseases have unique characteristics that distinguish them as a category. Distinguished by the presence of a biologic agent. Distinguished by having a prolonged course of disease. A disease that has a prolonged course, that does not resolve spontaneously, and for which a complete cure is rarely achieved. Chronic diseases can be summarized by a set of issues that are characteristically different from infectious diseases. Prolonged course of illness (long natural history)
