PUBHLTH 1 Lecture Notes - Lecture 4: Cooling Tower, Dietary Supplement, Immunodeficiency
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Chapter 4 epidemiology: the basic science of public health. Major part of public health"s assessment function. Evaluates effectiveness of medical and public health interventions. Epidemiology - pattern of disease occurrence ****know this. From this information, epidemiologists can infer why the disease is occurring. Notifiable diseases - if patient is coming to hospital being diagnosed with type of disease under the umbrella of notifiable diseases. Doctor needs to contact ph department about the contact. Usually these diseases are those that have higher risks of becoming an epidemic. Patterns of disease, factors that influence these patterns. Increase in the frequency of a disease above the usual and expected rate. Ask the who, where and when questions to describe the epidemic by person, place and time. Heart disease - leading cause of death in u. s. Lung cancer and smoking - early 1950s. Death rate from lung cancer 20x higher among smokers. Death rate among non-smokers lower than of smokers.
