HSCI 431- Final Exam Guide - Comprehensive Notes for the exam ( 26 pages long!)
30 Nov 2017
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Understand gender, sex and sexuality in hiv. Origins of hiv (where it came from); who it impacts; how it impacts. Hiv epidemiology in canada; housing and hiv axis in vancouver. Hiv testing diagnosis and treatment; the cascade of care. Studying the regularity of the occurrence and development of infectious disease in human body. To study methods of diagnosis, treatment and prevention for infectious disease. Related to biology, immunology, parasitological, epidemiology, pediatrics. In order to control spread of infectious disease in population. Epidemic: a widespread occurrence of an infectious disease in a community at a particular time. Endemic: a disease/condition regularly found among particular people or in a certain area. Pandemic: a disease prevalent over a whole country or the world. Epidemiology: focuses on the occurrence of disease rather than on natural history or other aspect . Aims to find causes of diseases and to explain varying patterns of disease occurrence across populations and groups.
