POPM 3240 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Passive Immunity, Botulism, Fetus

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Health: a state of complete physical, mental and social well-being, and not merely the absence of disease or infirmity: more than just the absence of disease. Health and disease: there is a fine balance between health and disease, for disease to occur, we often need the agent to be present, a favourable environment for transmission and a susceptible host. Due to this, epidemiologists need to continue to monitor the prevalence of disease. Two approaches to prevention: a different view population-based approach: a preventive measure is widely applied to an entire population. For example, prudent dietary advice for preventing coronary disease: must be non-invasive and inexpensive, pop. Based can be seen as public health approaches. alternate approach target a high-risk group with the preventive measure. Thus, screening for cholesterol in children might be restricted to children from high-risk families: may be more expensive and invasive, alt approach may be more clinical.

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