AGRI 224 Lecture Notes - Lecture 13: National Health Interview Survey, Behavioral Risk Factor Surveillance System, Second Doctor

• School: University of Delaware
• Department: Agriculture
• Course: AGRI 224
• Professor: Aresenault

Document Summary

Ecologic studies (& others we don"t have time for) Case reports - accounts of a single occurrence of a noteworthy health-related incident or small collection of such events. Provide details about the symptoms, lab results, and potential diagnoses. Can serve as a call to other clinicians who may have also seen a single patient with similar symptoms. The lowest level of evidence, but super important because they are identifying something not normal. Surveillance is ongoing, systematic monitoring of health conditions or behaviors in a given population. A person feels ill and goes to the doctor. Doctor diagnoses or laboratory tests confirm a disease that is reportable by state law to the local or state public health department. Doctor or lab sends info about this disease to the local or state public health department public health department. The public health dept receives disease data and uses them to: Ensure that the patient is effectively treated so disease is not spread.