ANTC67H3 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Miasma Theory, Cardiovascular Disease, Least Developed Countries
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Video (hans rosling): different determinants of health can influence health outcomes. Measures of population health: infant mortality, life expectancy, and fertility rate. Determinant of health: income, education, and access to health care. Hippocrates" observation: environmental factors influence the occurrence of diseases. Most diseases have several factors contributing to causation. The objective of epidemiology is to improve health. Diseases can be caused by genetics or an interaction between genetics and environmental factors (ex. 1850s: in 1854 over a span of a few weeks, 862 people living in london, uk died of cholera. There were two theories as to what caused the cholera outbreak. At this time period there was no germ theory so people didn"t know that illnesses were caused by microorganisms. In order to control disease they attempted to make the air smell better but that didn"t do much. The second theory was that proposed by john snow.
