PUBH 100 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Coronary Artery Disease, Sequela, Public Health Surveillance
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Definition: physical, social, mental well being of a population. Westward railroad expansion (factory) that helped chicago economy. Decline in deaths from coronary heart disease and stroke. Recognition of tobacco use as a health hazard. Epidemiology is the study of distribution (frequency and pattern) and determinants of health related states or events in specified populations and the application of this study to the control of health problems. Risked his life to find the source of cholera. Made a discovery that cholera is transmitted through water. Deadly sewage leaked into the broad street water pump. Ability to prevent, control, or treat the problem. Capacity of health system to implement control measures for the health problem. Defining health problem, identifying needed information, establishing scope for surveillance. Criteria for identifying and counting occurrences of disease include a group of signs and symptoms rather than specific clinical or laboratory data. Signs and symptoms might be grouped into a syndrome category-
