KINE 1020 Lecture Notes - Lecture 9: Hormone Replacement Therapy, World Health Organization
19 May 2016
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**best advice: large study with lots of people. Observational study: retrospective: looking back in time. Hormone replacement therapy and heart disease: looking at women who has heart disease as opposed to those who didn"t. It was observed that those w/o heart disease likely to have taken hormone replacement therapy in the past; does not imply causation/correlation: prospective: observing what will happen in the future. Hormone replacement therapy and heart disease: looking at women who did not do hrt and those who did. It was observed that those who did not do hrt likely to get heart disease in the future; still does not imply causation/correlation. Determinants of health- mental health and behavior change. Study of social, behavioral, cognitive, and emotional factors that influence the: Patient"s and family"s response to illness and disease. A complete state of physical, mental, and social well-being and not merely the absence of disease and infirmity.
