01:920:227 Lecture Notes - Lecture 12: Spurious Relationship, Capital Accumulation, Whitehall Study
13 Aug 2018
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Will cover all material since last exam (incl. today) 10 am - noon on thursday (3/22) 11:30 am - 12:30 pm on friday (3/23) Davison hall 135 on the douglass campus. Definition: the prevailing condition of disease in a population, where disease includes both disability and illness. The opposite of health in a living population. Close relationship between morbidity and population processes (including mortality as well as fertility and migration) Definition of epidemiology: branch of medical science dealing with incidence, distribution, and control of disease in a population. (cid:862)epide(cid:373)iologi(cid:272)al tra(cid:374)sitio(cid:374)(cid:863) i(cid:374)(cid:272)ludes (cid:271)oth the wester(cid:374) (cid:373)ortalit(cid:455) tra(cid:374)sitio(cid:374) (dis(cid:272)ussed previously) and a parallel morbidity transition. Prevalence rate = number of all cases. Total population (from essentials of epidemiology in public health, by ann aschengrau and george r. seage; available in rutgers library) 1 daly = 1 lost year of healthy living (due to either disability or death) Gives total picture of morbidity & mortality impacts due to specific causes.
