POPM 3240 Study Guide - Midterm Guide: Bovine Spongiform Encephalopathy, Percivall Pott, Edward Jenner

• School: University of Guelph
• Department: Population Medicine
• Course: POPM 3240
• Professor: Andrea Jones- Bitton

Document Summary

Unit 1: learning outcomes, epidemiology, frequency, distribution, determinants, any factor that when altered produces a change in the frequency or characteristics of the disease. Unit 2: edward jenner, smallpox vaccinations, black box epidemiology, purely observational, pathological process is not known. James lind: scurvy treatment in the navy. Scientific trials (randomized control trials: again, black box epidemiology, sir percival pott, occupational carcinogen for chimney boyz. John snow: cholera investigation, didn"t believe in miasmatic bad air theory, pinpoint to a certain pump company, found sewer contamination, again, black box epidemiology, learning outcomes, define epidemiology and epidemiologist, describe the general approaches of. Unit 3/4: health, physical mental and social well-being, not just absence of disease, disease, physiological/psychological dysfunction, determinant, any factor that when altered, produces a change in outcome, outcome of interest, response/dependent variable, ex. Ingestion: routes, aerial (aeros, contact, sexual, vector. Iatrogenic (healthcare caused: any living organism, zoonoses: any disease transmissible from vertebrae animals to humans, disease terminology.