epidemiology part 2 definition Flashcards
1
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hippocrates: rational rather than supernatural
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circa 400 BC
2
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john graunt
published landmark analysis of mortality data in 1662
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1662
3
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father of modern vital statistics and surveillance
systemic collecting and analyzing britains mortality statistics
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1800 william farr
4
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father of field epidemiology
conducting a series of inventions in london
erupted in golden square of londn
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1854 john snow
5
Q
linking lung cancer to smoking
study of cardiovascular disease
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doll and hill
6
Q
health workers applied epidemiologic methods to eradicate naturally occuring SMALLPOX
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1960’s and early 1970’s
7
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major task of epidemiology
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public health surveillance
field investigation
analytic studies
evaluation
linkages
