HLSC 2P21 Chapter Notes - Chapter 6: Degenerative Disease, Intersectionality, Cholera
22 Apr 2017
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Population health measures: health can be measured at the cellular, individual, and population level, cellular cells need a constant supply of oxygen and glucose to be healthy. Epidemiology: the inception of population based epidemiological methods and its demonstrated strength, two goals of epidemiology, understand the rate at which a disease will spread through a population and the overall burden of disease. John snow cholera outbreak agent occurs: 1831 outbreak, cholera is an intestinal infection caused by a bacterium found in untreated drinking water, snow mapped identified cases and found they clustered around those who used the pump on. Broad street: ordered the handle to be removed. Importance of his discovery being that he found the cause based on epidemiological investigation: made possible by the invention of the microscope. Statistical fundamentals: rate = (cases / target population) x 10n, measure of frequency over a specific period of time.
