HLTH-3800 Study Guide - Midterm Guide: Miasma Theory, Abdominal Pain, Version Control
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Study questions for the first exam, hlth 380, fall, 2016. Textbook chapters: below are listed the study questions and exercises that are the most useful in reviewing materials in the first three textbook chapters (1, 2, and 12). Chapter 1: the history and scope of epidemiology. Review questions 4, 5, 6, 11: describe the significance for epidemiology of the following historical developments, associating the environment with disease causality- causality developed from. The wrath of the gods to the physical environment. He started the quantitative analysis that allowed for studying trends in birth and death rates: use of natural experiments- john snow utilized natural experiments to investigate the cholera epidemic. Naturally occurring circumstances where different subsets of the population have different levels of exposure to a supposed causal factor in a situation resembling an actual experiment, where subjects would be randomly allocated to groups.
