HSCI 216 Lecture Notes - Lecture 5: Cirrhosis, Dengue Fever, Rocky Mountain Spotted Fever
11 Sep 2017
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To be able to explain what evolutionary epidemiology is and why it is important. To describe the ways epidemiological data is collected. To describe possible health outcomes fmor disease. A discipline that studies the causes of disease, looking at who is affected, where disease occur, when they occur and the social, environmental, dietary and lifestyle correlates of disease occurrence. What is disease: is a biomedically measurable lesion, or an anatomical or physiological irregularity. A discipline that studies the causes of lesions or anatomical or physiological irregularities looking at who is affected, where diseases occur, when they occur and the social, environmental, dietary and lifestyle correlates of disease occurrence. The traditional biomedical approach to disease is dichotomous. However the limit between health and disease is not always clear! A health condition, in which the normal function of a part of the body is less than full capacity. Include manifestations of some sort of decrease in ability that is noticeable to others.
