ANTC67H3 Lecture Notes - Lecture 9: Mortality Rate, Relative Risk, Unimodality
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Chronic diseases are more non communicable diseases, and are much broader than them as well. Injuries: think not about the acute effect, but the long term effect that are lasting. Amount of chronic disease you could prevent by adapting an appropriate prevention. How many causes of diseases are preventable. Study health and disease in migrants, look at genetics and environment. The rate of cancer in japanese people changed along time and geography: why does it change: diet, less fish based in america, the (cid:272)a(cid:374)(cid:272)e(cid:396) thus is(cid:374)"t ge(cid:374)eti(cid:272) (cid:271)ut (cid:396)athe(cid:396) e(cid:374)(cid:448)i(cid:396)o(cid:374)(cid:373)e(cid:374)tal. Thinking about it from this level we would need to target the broad population at risk. For example providing good sexual health educations so that teens and kids can advocate for themselves. Primary: want to prevent new cases from happening, incidence, community and individual efforts for the population, va(cid:272)(cid:272)i(cid:374)atio(cid:374)"s used to ta(cid:396)get the (cid:272)ause of disease to p(cid:396)e(cid:448)e(cid:374)t futu(cid:396)e o(cid:374)set of disease.
