Final Flashcards
John Graunt
Bills of Mortality - mortality data, patterns of birth/death/disease
William Farr
father of modern vital statistics and surveillance. system collection/analysis of Britian’s mortality rates - developed basic principles in vital statistics and disease classification
John Snow
father of epidemiology - discovered cause of disease of cholera to prevent reoccurence
Florence Nightinggale
plan for reform for health in army - nurse/epidemiologit - monitored disease mortality rates with improved sanitary conditions - showing lower death rates
Epidemiologic Triad Model
Host, Agent, Environment. an environment where host/agent are brought together to make disease
wheel of causation
host core - with social physical and biological environemtn surrounding
web of causation
complex group of subjects and relationships that can contribute to occurence and spread of disease
Leavell and Clark’s Natural History of Disease Model
Primary, Secondary, Tertiary prevention. course disease takes in individual people from its pathological onset until eventual resolution through complete recovery or death. Prepathogenesis - and period of pathogenesis.
Infectious disease
present and replication of an infectious agent in tissues of a host, with manifestation of signs and symptoms
Communicable Disease
portal of exit from infected person/animal, means of transmission, portal of entry to a susceptible host
Airborne transmission
TB, Ebola
Direct Contact
STD
Indirect Contact
malaria
droplet
flu, measles
Chlamydia
no symptoms - cervitis, urethritis, pyuria, dysuria, urinary frequency