MIP 315A Lecture Notes - Public Health, Parasitic Disease, Cardiovascular Disease
16 May 2014
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50 questions from previous exams and new material; also derived from presentations. Do better on the final than another exam, drop lowest score and count final twice. Understand the nature of the science of pathology. Know the leading causes of death in the u. s. Know the leading causes of death in the underdeveloped world. 88% of americans over 65 years of age have at least one chronic health problem. Health, as we define it, is the unusual state, attained by very few, if any, human beings. It is not our health that determines who we are as human beings; it is our illness. Infectious (extrinsic) disease involves a transmissible agent that is the ultimate cause of the disease. Intrinsic (sometimes called chronic) diseases do not obviously involve a transmissible agent. The terms contagious and infectious are not synonymous. Outside of the developed world, the greatest threat to human life is infectious disease.
