HSCI 216 Lecture Notes - Lecture 5: Naturalistic Fallacy, Epidemiological Method, Demographic Transition
19 Oct 2015
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7 billion people can live in texas because they say we have enough space with a house and garden for people, what else do we need: Space to maintain ecosystems to preserve the world"s bio-diversity. What about schools and malls (video does not cover public space) Illnesses can spread by having 7 billion people occupy that one space (public health) A lot of people think things thats are natural are good, but there a lot that are not. Study of the spread of diseases, tries to describe how health and disease patterns are spread. looks at who is affected, where it occurs and when. Is a biomedical measurable lesion, or an anatomical or physiological irregularity. Then epidemiology is . a discipline that studies the causes of lesions, or anatomical or physiological irregularities looking at who is affected, where diseases occurs, when they occur and the social environment, dietary and lifestyles behaviours.
