AN SC100 Lecture : Class review
15 Dec 2011
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Uses scientific method to find factors which contribute to a given disease. Can estimate the risks a population faces due to a disease using statistics. Identifies a disease and how it spreads from person to person. Notes how a disease progresses and risk factors for a known or unknown disease. Studies known and unknown diseases, risk factors and how they are present in an area. Deals with cause and effect, like epidemiology, but can be used in a non-medical sense also in finding the origins of something. How a disease occurs, when it was named, who found it, etc. In medicine, refers to the origins of a disease, scientific or historical. Explain the nature of known diseases and how they can be prevented. A disease must be caused by a living agent such as bacteria, protozoa, fungi, viruses or prions (though the last two aren t really living) to be considered infectious.
