SOC243H1 Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: Longitudinal Study, Environmental Enteropathy, Cognitive Reserve
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Lecture 2: epidemiology: from infectious disease to injury, global perspectives. Health & illness, and their measurement as complex and multidimensional & uncertain. Etymology- (cid:498)among the people(cid:499) or the study of what is upon the people it is. The study of patterns, causes and effects of health and disease conditions in specified populations. // he tests his theory that water was infecting people by removing the pump and people were unable to take the water and less people were sick (induction and deduction) Deduction: theory to hypothesis (general to specific) Epidemiologic triangle: an aid for inductive reasoning about infectious diseases. Mckeown: decrease in population death due to economic growth- increased nutrition, social status, living standards and not due to public health interventions (control water, vaccinations worldwide etc) When thinking about chronic diseases, the epidemiological triad no longer applies, not one agent. Report on road traffic accidents- one of the most common causes of death in 2012 (global perspective)
