IPHY 3490 Study Guide - Midterm Guide: Sexually Transmitted Infection, Lung Cancer, John Graunt
20 Sep 2016
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Epidemiology: study and analysis of the patterns, causes, and effects of public health and disease conditions in defined populations: focus on preventing disease and promoting health. Determinants: causes, risk factors, or exposures that brought about the change in health phenomenon. Distribution: frequency/pattern of a health phenomenon based on age, sex, race, place, and time. Population: examines disease occurrence among population groups not individuals. Health phenomenon: infectious diseases, chronic diseases, disabilities, active life expectancy, mental illness, suicide, morbidity, mortality, etc. Aims and levels: to describe the health status of populations, to explain the etiology of disease, to predict the occurrence of disease, to control the occurrence of disease. It"s connected to the health and biomedical sciences such as biology, chemistry, anatomy, physiology, and pathology; and it is closely tied to statistics or, more precisely, biostatistics. Epidemiological research methods are used as a tool to study the health of populations: foundation of public health, many subfields.
