HLST 1010 Chapter 1: HLST 1010 chapter 1 summary
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Epidemiological approaches to population health. Chapter one centers on the study of effects, causes of health and the disease state in the population. Epidemiologists rely on other scientific disciplines like biology to better understand disease processes, statistics to make efficient use of the data. According to the world health organization, health is a state of complete physical mental and social well being. For example, the finding that populations with more poverty have worse health than populations with less poverty implies that poorer people will have poorer health.