ENVS 4210- Final Exam Guide - Comprehensive Notes for the exam ( 112 pages long!)
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Identify risk factors for disease, injury, and death. Identifying individuals and populations at greater risk. Monitoring disease and other health-related events over time. Evaluating efficacy and effectiveness of prevention and treatment programs. Providing information for health planning and health programs. Assisting in carrying out public health programs. Psychological milieu environment can be external to host or within the host. time expresses: Duration of the course an illness takes. Fomite disease transmission: are objects (door knobs, clothes, counter tops) that barbor disease and are capable of transmitting pathogen to host. vector disease transmission: invertebrate animal that transmit disease to vertebrates. Also can be referred to as subclinical. incubatory carrier exposed and harbor pathogen. They are in the beginning stage of the disease, showing symptoms. Set 2 hippocrates tried to explain disease from a rational view point. Wrote books epidemic i, iii, and on airs water and places.
