HSC 4500 Chapter Notes - Chapter 1-3: Public Health Surveillance, Maternal Death, Bar Chart
Document Summary
Chapter 1: history, philosophy, and uses: what is epidemiology and define its purpose, define the following vocabulary terms: Quantification: natural history of disease and define the three modes of prevention: Tertiary: origin of epidemiology, forerunner of modern epidemiologists and contributions, principal uses: Disease management: ethics and philosophy and the reasons for ethic norms, guidelines. Chapter 2: epidemiologic measurements used to describe disease occurrence: purpose of epidemiological measures, define the types of epidemiological measures and relationship. Lifetime prevalence: know the two primary functions of prevalence data and limits, one of the first steps in presenting data. Counting and tabulating cases: purpose and limits of graphical presentations. Chapters 1-3 study guide: define types of graphical presentation and term. Rate: describe the four epidemiolocal measures of morbidity and mortality. Cause-specific rate: define reference population and proportional mortality ratio, know and define types of specific rates. Fetal deaths: read about data from public health surveillance programs, define following terms:
