Descriptive Epidemiology correct answer: deals with the frequency and the distribution of risk factors in populations and enables to assess the extent of
... [Show More] a disease. It can thus provide hypotheses of etiologic research
Analytical Epidemiology correct answer: aims to research and study risk and protector factors of diseases.
Pandemic correct answer: An epidemic occurring worldwide, or over a very wide area, crossing international boundaries, and usually affecting a large number of people.
Ex.. 1918 influenza (Spanish flu)
Distribution correct answer: The occurrence of diseases and other health outcomes varies in populations, with some subgroups of the populations more frequently affected than others.
Epidemic correct answer: sudden increase in occurrence of disease in a population
usually within a specific geographic region or population
Exposures correct answer: Related to determinants,which pertain either to contact with a disease-causing factor or to the amount of the factor that impinges upon a group or individuals.
Determinants correct answer: determinants Any factor that brings about change in a health condition or other defined characteristic.
Morbidity correct answer: illness due to a specific disease or health condition
Mortality correct answer: Death, usually on a large scale
Quanification correct answer: Refers to counting the cases of illness or other health outcomes. Denotes the use of statistics to describe the occurrence of health outcomes and measure their association with exposures
Hippocrates correct answer: departed from superstitious reasons for disease outbreaks Wrote On Airs, Waters, and Places in 400 BC
Suggested disease might be associated with environmental factors
John Snow correct answer: (1813-1858)An English anesthesiologist who innovated several of the key epidemiologic methods that remain valid and in use today
Believed that cholera was transmitted by contaminated water and was able to demonstrate this association.
Paracelsus correct answer: (1493-1541) was one of the founders of the field of toxicology.
The dose-response relationship
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