HLTC21H3 Final: HLTC07 Review/Summary of all midterm content- needed for cumulative final
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Features of epidemiology": endemic: present in a community at all times but in relatively low frequency. E. g. causal (attributable) rate ratio such as the study of cigarette smoking in the etiology of lung cancer. The demographic transition: transformation of a population, youth bulge, replacement fertility - represents the number of children a couple needs to have in order to replace themselves, range from 2. 04 to 3. 35 (engelman and reahy, 2005) Cmgmg: contraceptive prevalence, mortality from hiv/aids and other infectious diseases, gender equity, migration, government policies. Impacts of population growth: why does it matter: health - adverse impact especially on women and children, poverty, natural resources, conflict and security. Main messages: world is demographically complex and diverse. It focuses on the individual rather than the population level. Lecture 2- the burden of disease and disability. Individual-level data are aggregated to generate estimates of quantities. Who"s global burden of disease (gbd) study: new metric disability-adjusted life year (daly)
