PUBHLTH 1 Chapter Notes - Chapter 4: Public Health Surveillance, Bioterrorism
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Lecture 2. 1 ch 4-epidemiology: basic science of public health epidemiology - diagnostic discipline of public health trends/occurence of disease observation of science patterns of disease occurence. Who, when, where? epidemic surveillance - observation to prevent manifestation of epidemic situation. Notifiable diseases: specific diseases (ex: hep a); if patient is coming to the hospital and being diagnosed, physician is required to contact ph department under that group of notifiable diseases. Outbreak investigation - verify, construct definition, find cases, ask who/where/when, look for exposure epi and chronic diseases. Framingham study - what"s the leading cause for heart disease john snow - father of epidemiology. First epi approach of disease - cholera. Trying to find out and eliminate sources of disease legionnaires" disease eosinophilia-myalgia syndrome.
