HST250H1 Lecture Notes - Lecture 12: Disease Surveillance, Biomonitoring, Infection
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Measurement of body burden of toxic chemicals compounds and inorganic elements. Three different sub-cultures (japanese researchers within a filipino minority group) Its always better to have citizens to do education because they know the people. Drop-out rates does not implied that people moved away; it can imply lost to follow up such as: death, participant moving away, migration. Study of distribution and patterns of health-events, health-characteristics and their causes in well-defined populations. An instance of disease in population (could be small-scale or widespread: epidemiologic triangle. Chronic disease clusters (i. e. who is more at risk of heart attacks) Host is affected by global environment, local environment, agents etc: disease patterns: Epidemic: disease that is visited upon a population. Syndemic: disease having combined effects or aggregated in a population: disease rates. Rates are a measure of the intensity with which disease events occur within a period. Constant presence of a disease within a given geographic area.
