Health Sciences 2000A/B Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: Hobo, Fetal Alcohol Spectrum Disorder, Saturated Fat
5 Apr 2016
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Epidemiology is the science that studies the patterns, causes, and effects of health and disease conditions in defined populations. Aristotle saw that 2000years ago, women had children with unusual behavior due to what we know now is fetal alcohol syndrome but all the blame was put on the individual. Illnesses can be communicated and affect other ppl using non traditional vectors. All of them were making good money, not poor. Doctors would focus on that one patient and their problems. Not their bigger picture like seeing common factors. We consider your non infectious disease to be your problem . The forest" is social class how much money u make something about educational attainment, to an extent, the better off u are. In canada, life expectancy, the 4-5 year gap between poorest and richest men (99% vs 1%) top 10% will live 4-5 year longer than the poorest.
