EEMB 50- Midterm Exam Guide - Comprehensive Notes for the exam ( 14 pages long!)
12 Oct 2017
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Waste a trillion dollars on healthcare per year. At least of this waste is unnecessary tests and treatments. It"s a bit more complicated than that. You may be reading a press release. Morbidity - the state of being diseased. James f. fries - compression of morbidity. A 20-year old can expect to live one less healthy year over his or her lifespan than a 20-year-old a decade ago, even though life expectancy has grown. So the idea of compression of morbidity has gone backwards. Certificates of death are collected by the state then purchased by the cdc in order to track diseases and find trends. Mortality research focuses on the underlying cause of death because public health interventions seek to break the sequence of causally related medical conditions as early as possible. Confounding factor - a hidden variable that is responsible for the observed association. Hormone replacement therapy is an example of observational studies, not an experiment.
