HLTB21H3 Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: Germ Theory Of Disease, Utility Ratemaking, Macrophage
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Epidemiology: the study of the distribution and determinants of health-related states or events in specified populations, and the application of this study to control of health problems. The study of (human) disease, illness and injury causes, manifestations, distribution and consequences the application of this study to the control of health problems (public health) Hippocrates (460 -377bce) father of modern medicine. Physician who had a perspective in health, which helped develop medicine. All matter made up of 4 elements earth, air, fire, water. Each possess corresponding qualities of cold, dry, hot, & moist. These elements carried the body by 4 humors (bodily fluids: phlegm , yellow bile choler, secreted by liver, blood gall, secreted by kidneys and spleen, black bile gall, secreted by kidneys and spleen. Disease is a product of a disturbance in the bodily humours or from climate and weather effects: health = good balance of humours.
