ANTC67H3 Lecture Notes - Lecture 8: Mammography, Histopathology, Positive And Negative Predictive Values
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Non-communicable disease: cardiovascular disease, cancer, chronic respiratory disease, diabetes. Disabiliies: visual impairments and blindness, hearing impairment and deafness. Prevenive potenial: changing paterns of morbidity and mortality across ime and geography show that many causes of disease are preventable, e. g. , studies of migrants: Weight of gastric cancer is lower people born in hawaii to japanese parents then in people born in japan. Ater two generaions in the us, rate of gastric cancer in people of japanese heritage is similar to that of the general us populaion patern for just the importance of diet in early life. Phase of disease targeted: early stage of disease (between the onset of disease in the normal ime of diagnosis) Acions: measures available to individuals and communiies for early detecion an intervenion to control disease and reduce disability (example: screening programs) Target: individuals with establish these targeted through early treatment and diagnosis: teriary. Aim: reduce the number and/or impact complicaions.
