MGTA01H3 Lecture Notes - National Cancer Institute, Cholera, Built Environment
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The study of (human) disease, illness and injury: causes, manifestations, distribution and consequences and the application of this study to the control of health problems (public health, interactions of host, agent and environment. Epidemiology: a discipline that is relatively new. Public health: functions to observe and collect data, but mainly to prevent and control disease. Close relationship between humans and environment if you suffer from disease, you probably have an imbalance in the relationship of human and environment. Environment: overcrowding -> incubation time: pathogen spreads faster if incubation is short. Descriptive(morbidity/mortality), theoretical (models), analytical (quantitative) and applied (public health control / prevention) Miasma" and cholera: london, england th, 4 major cholera outbreaks in mid-19, cholera: acute intestinal infection caused by bacterium vibrio cholerae, 600+ deaths in 1854, john snow. Analysis of vital statistics on morbidity and mortality. To determine whether there is a statistical association between particular characteristics and the development of a disease (risk, prevalence)
