KINESIOL 1C03 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Soho, Preventive Healthcare, Global Health
5 Jun 2016
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Epidemiology is the distribution and determinants of health-related states or events in specified populations and the application to control global health problems. Graph a: shows that young populations had much higher probable case rate in the united. This could be explained by younger populations (0-24) being exposed to more people, attending school, touching their face more often. Older populations (25+) may already have been exposed and developed the necessary antibodies. Graph b: hospitalization rates were higher in infants (0-4y) and seniors (65+) because they are usually more prone to complications with the flu. Graph c: death rates are opposites of that of hospitalization where the in between groups showed majority. 1/3 of reported cases had comprised immune systems with underlying medical conditions while almost. John snow: father of epidemiology with his study of cholera. His work paved the way to: clean water supply, germ theory, population medicine, preventive medicine.
