SOCI 425 Chapter Notes - Chapter 2: Pneumonic Plague, Oseltamivir, Prevalence
15 Sep 2016
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Point prevalence- the number of cases at a certain point in time, usually a particular day or week. Period prevalence- the total number of cases during a specified period of time, usually a month or year. Birth rates and mortality rates are an example. Mortality rate= number of deaths that year/total number of residents in that population. Then they are multiplied by 1,000, 10,000, or 100,000 depending on the rate being calculated per x amount of people. Crude rates are usually to broad: age specific rates: rates used to show differences by age. Infant mortality rate is significant because it is traditionally used as an approximate indicator of a society"s standard of living and quality of healthcare delivery. The development of epidemiology: epidemics started to spread when people started to migrate from one place to another as well as when people migrated to more urban and crowded living conditions, the bubonic plague.
