EPID 301 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Molecular Epidemiology, Malnutrition, Coronary Artery Disease
5 Mar 2016
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Important to medicine for increased knowledge: epidemiology and public health, provides a basis for describing and explaining disease occurrence. Help understand significance and impact: basis for developing, prioritizing, and evaluating public health programs. Programs should be developed based on need. Tools used to assess frequency and scope of health problems. Measures of morbidity, mortality, years of life lost ect to assess impact: applications of epidemiology. Risk marker or risk indicator. Disease outbreaks: circumstances where is clear increase in number of cases of a disease. Disease outbreaks and epidemics investigated to identify causes. December: reinstitution of vaccine was effective in preventing further spread, other uses. Useful in health planning process: needs assessment, objective setting and program evaluation. Health policy formulation: answer vital questions about benefits or harm from interventions. Increase understanding of natural history of life cycle of specific disorders. Not as important: definition of epidemiology, from greek, 3ds of epidemiology. Epi meaning upon, demos meaning people, and logos meaning word.
