HE300 Study Guide - Midterm Guide: John Graunt, Black Death, Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease
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Dimensions of health: understanding things that put people at risk epidemics, two worst things you can do for yourself: smoking, being sedentary. A complete state of physival mental and social well being and not simply the absence of disease or infirmity. Epi is the study of how disease is distributed in populations and the factors that influence or determine this distribution. Integral in describing disease patterns, and in the formulation of hypotheses pertaining to possible causial or preventative factors. Quantification of existence or occurrence of disease. Necessary for investigation of disease occurance in human populations. Identification so frisk factors for illness or mortalilty. Tsting of hypothesis relating risk factors to disease occurrence (or lack of disease) Risk factors can increase or decrease ex. Pop medicine: focus on community, main goal is prevention, people at risk identified and measures taken to reduce their risk.
