HLTH101 Lecture Notes - False Dilemma

• School: University of Waterloo
• Department: Health Studies
• Course: HLTH101
• Professor: All

Document Summary

Infectious vs. non-communicable diseases (can"t pass on like cancer and heart disease: false dichotomy. Ascertaining point of onset ( point of onset the point the infectious agent entered your system or when the agent was able to replicate its self in your body) Pathophysiologic level ( change is physiologic response one of the things that will happen with the disease) Syndromic level (a cluster of symptoms and you need to have a number of them- things you can find out in the examination) Statistical (who has the problem and who doesn"t)