Kinesiology 1070A/B Lecture Notes - Lecture 12: Myocardial Infarction
19 Dec 2015
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Psychological consequences of exercise, using exercise to change health behaviours. Using exercise to change other health behaviours. health. What is epidemiology: look at the exposure of disease the study of the distribution and determinants of health related states or events in specific populations and the application of this study. A portion of the population chooses to drink while others do not. Epidemiologists use these naturally occurring differences in a population to observe" and therefore understand the effect of these differences on specific disease outcomes. It is virtually the only way in which a quantitative understanding of the exposure-disease relationship can be obtained. Eg. it would be unethical to randomize a group of individuals to either a drinking or non-drinking condition, wait ten years and then see how much death and disease drinking causes. Terminology: distribution relates to the frequency and patterns of disease occurrence in a population, prevalence a statistic, how often the disease occurs.
