BIO 3124 Lecture Notes - Lecture 21: Relative Risk, Contagious Disease, Cumulative Incidence
7 Dec 2016
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Branch of medicine that describes the occurrence, distribution and types of diseases in populations for distinct time period. Epidemiology is the study of who, what, when, where and how as they related to outbreaks of infectious diseases. Medical microbiology as they relate to the level of the population. State in which the infection caused tissue damage, but with no clinical signs or symptoms. Direct or indirect transmission from an infected person. Transmission by non-natural means from an infected person. Type of incidence applied to a population that is observed over a defined time period. Measure of the risk of developing the disease. Measures how well a pathogen can go from one host to another. Number of individuals at risk during that time period, if you already had the disease you are not at risk. People at risk = those who go to the restaurant (2000) New cases = those who got sick (400)
