HLTH260 Chapter Notes - Chapter 1-12: Epidemiological Transition, Social Epidemiology, Coronary Artery Disease

• School: University of Waterloo
• Department: Health Studies
• Course: HLTH260
• Professor: Theresa Schumilas

Document Summary

There are different levels of analysis -> ex: healthy cell vs healthy individual vs healthy population. Some variables or attributes are only appropriate for certain level of analyses: collective variables: characterizes the entire population ex: income distribution of population, individual variables: applies to only individual ex: income. Risk factor model: the individual model of health and disease -> analyses the individual level of age, sex, genetics and behaviour. Two variants: biomedical variant: focuses on interaction of host and agent, behavioural variant: emphasizes health behaviour (lifestyle factors) The key considerations regarding the host are age, sex, and genetics-> risk factor model assumes once we know this stuff we can understand the host"s susceptibility to disease and resilience -> Basically, if we know all of this stuff about a person, we can figure out what disease they will and won"t get and that our health is directly related to age, sex and genetics.