NSE-31A Lecture Notes - Lecture 9: Social Epidemiology, Public Health, Relative Risk
27 Nov 2018
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Importance of epidemiology: helps determine the etiology, risk factors or risk conditions of diseases, helps explain patterns of injuries and provides direction for injury prevention. Includes notion of social epidemiology explicit attention to role of sdh in risk factors/conditions for disease and injury: looking into and understanding how the sdoh create risk factors and conditions in those populations. Fall semester week 9: need programs and services can be related to the need that occurs now and knowing when to implement resources to overcome that need, e. g. Shifting understanding of epidemiology: changes in the types of disease/illness causing death during the 20th century. Increasing shift from contagious to chronic diseases: at the beginning of time people were focused on communicable diseases that were affecting large population (cholera, was a priority to understand how that was happening because lots of people died. Increased recognition of the complexity of factors causing illness. Fall semester week 9: psychological= trauma, disease/condition, environment, physical; biological; social.
