HSCI 130 Chapter Notes - Chapter 2: Clinical Case Definition, Prevalence, Cardiovascular Disease
17 Jan 2018
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Chapter 2 tutorial #2 notes: measuring health and disease. The measure of health and disease is fundamental to the practice of epidemiology. A variety of measures are used to characterize the overall health of populations. Population health status is not fully measured in many parts of the wold and this lack of information poses a major challenge for epidemiologists. The most ambitious definition of health is proposed by who in 1948 health is a state of complete physical, mental and social well-being and not merely the absence of disease or infirmity . This is signifiant as the definition was criticized because of the docility in defining and measuring well being remains an ideal. Definitions of health states used by epidemiologists tend to be simple, for example, disease present or disease aspect . The development of criteria to establish the presence of the disease requires a definition of normality and.
