BMS1042 Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: Interquartile Range, Standard Deviation, Years Of Potential Life Lost
15 Aug 2018
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Lecture 3 | injury as significant public health issue. Identify the public health definition of injury and its classification. An understanding of descriptive epidemiological concepts and terms. Accidents were the result of a chain of events. An event for no one, except the victim was responsible. Injuries occur as result of energy transfer that is delivered in excess of threshold. Types of energy that can cause injury: The first stage of epidemiologic investigation focuses on describing disease distribution by characteristics relating to time, place and person. Only includes people who are potentially susceptible to the disease being studied. Can be defined by demographic, geographic or environmental factors. Any departure, subjective or objective, from a state of physiological or psychological wellbeing. More useful for low case-fatality chronic conditions: measures of morbidity. More comprehensive measure of disease impact than mortality. Number of years of potential life lost if they die before a certain age.
