SOSC 2150 Lecture Notes - Cardiovascular Disease, Unnatural Causes, Economic Inequality
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Illness you can feel ill but not necessarily be a diagnostic. Data that has been gathered through clinical heath places. Some statistical data might be under-reporting due to diagnostic problems and illness is not being recognized. We have to think about who do we gather the statistics from? (health care facilities or community level) Numerable problems when we start to try to compare the statistics between countries. Distribution of morbidity (disease), disability and mortality (death rates and causes of death) across populations. In attempt to explain the terms above. Works on contemporary data and there is a field of historical epidemiology where they look at the historical causes. Study of contemporary patterns of morbidity, disability and mortality and they use different data that is used in two categories. Mortality rates (le and pyll- potential years loss of premature death) average life expectancy of the population.
