[HLSC 2P27] - Midterm Exam Guide - Comprehensive Notes for the exam (46 pages long!)

• School: Brock University
• Department: Health Sciences
• Course: HLSC 2P27
• Professor: Carolynn Pietrangeli

Document Summary

The acquisition of knowledge if it has validity it is truer) only comes from repeated questioning. African mothers getting tired of their children getting sick from water . Tried to fix water supply kill the bugs using heat. Example; empiric research (just seeing if it will happen) Collected in clear plastic bottles, sun with heat and tin roofs--- left them there for a while---who called this solar decontamination, not formal research. The goal of health research: to make causal associations. Between: information that will stand the test of time (until we find a replacement or is. Treatment and alteration of disease course (osteo- does drug a reduce pain level?--- measuring pain level as an outcome and exposure is some receive drug) Four phases of health research: hypothesis generation, epidemiologic observation to reinforce the hypothesis, hypothesis testing in a formal study, intervention to alter the outcome and preserve health.