POPM 3240 Study Guide - Final Guide: Percivall Pott, Chimney Sweep, Randomized Controlled Trial
23 Feb 2018
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Describe the general approaches taken and outcomes achieved by. John snow: anesthesiologist known for epidemiology of cholera, cholera, leads to diarrhea and dehydration where about half of people die from it, miasma theory thought cholera was caused by bad air but. Interventions do not need a full understanding of the disease process: value of spatial data, process of outbreak investigations. Explain the varying approaches in which epidemiology can be used to understand disease: disease occurance, cause of disease, screening for disease, accuracy of clinical diagnostics. Interpretation of diagnostic tests: prognoses for many diseases, clinical effectiveness of treatments, health promotion, diseas eprvention and prolonging life. What is health: a state of complete physical, mental and social welling being and not merely the adsence of disease or infirmity, a state of physical psychological well being and of producting including reproduction. Intervention: stopped the use of srm, stopped feeding ruminant meat bone meal to ruminants.
