HLTH 230b Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Basic Reproduction Number, Case Fatality Rate, Ebola Vaccine
18 May 2017
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Who definition of health: state of complete physical, mental, social well-being and not merely the absence of disease or infirmity. R0: basic reproduction number; number of people that one sick person will infect on average: >1 is epidemic. Case fatality rate: number of deaths/number of cases x 100. Healthcare supply chain: managing inventory and logistics, etc. , distributing gloves/medical supplies. Ebola vaccine created after outbreak, had means to create it before but did/could not because it was not a priority: not profitable, other factors. I(cid:374)dividual"s health(cid:272)are out(cid:272)o(cid:373)e affe(cid:272)ted (cid:271)(cid:455: national funding, environment, healthcare system, access to resources transportation, hp"s trai(cid:374)i(cid:374)g a(cid:374)d e(cid:454)perie(cid:374)(cid:272)e (cid:894)edu(cid:272)atio(cid:374)(cid:895) Biology level of trust for healthcare provider. Culture top 3 global causes of death are non-communicable diseases: vizhub. healthdata. org/gbd-compare/ map of diseases terminology: people infected by hiv, not hiv-infected people people first, low, middle, upper middle, high income countries, or developing or developed countries, Health equity: absence of disparities in controllable health.
