HLST 1000 Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: William Farr, Infant Mortality, Seat Belt
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It seeks to identify unique effects of single variables on health outcomes through quantitative data collection and analytical procedures. Focus on what can be observed and measured, or phenomena that can be quantified. Epidemiology has three main purposes: to describe diseases patterns in human populations, to identify the causes of diseases, to provide data for the management, evaluation of planning of services for the prevention. The origins of epidemiology and an example of its approach come from john snow. Studied people who succumbed (die from) to cholera (bacterial disease) in london 150 years ago. water. resources . He discovered an association between deaths in various districts and the sources of. He went door-to-door, counting deaths and asking about those home"s water. He recognized that poverty was an important contributor to poor health. People have remarked that the other factors of poor health are the behaviours and environmental exposures linked with poverty.
