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HEALTHCARE 3 Flashcards

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epi

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upon/among

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demos

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people/district

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logos

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study or knowledge of

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epidemiology is defined as the study of what?

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study of what is upon the people

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What is the goal of epidemiology

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Limit disease, injury and death in a community

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Professionals involved in the area of epidemiology

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epidemiologist

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Defined Epidemiology as “the study of the distribution and determinants of diseases and injuries in human populations”

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Mausner & Kramer (1985)

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Defined epidemiology as the study of the distribution and determinants of health related states or events in specified populations and the application of this study to the control of health problems

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John M. Last

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Classical Father of Epidemiology

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Hippocrates

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Who was the first person known to have examined the relationships between disease occurrence and environmental influences.

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Hippocrates

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What relationship did Hippocrates examine?

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relationships between disease occurrence and environmental influences

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What 2 terms did Hippocrates coin in epidemiology?

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epidemic and endemic

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• 16th century, famous Italian doctor
• the first one who proposed a theory that very small, unseeable live particles cause disease and are able to spread via different modes of transmission that can cause epidemics

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Girolamo Fracastoro

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What proved Fracastoro’s theory?

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Invention of Microscope

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Who created the microscope

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Anton Van Leeuwenhoek 1675

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In this date, there had been an outbreak of cholera in London’s Soho District. Dr. John Snow mapped out the clusters of cholera cases and identified that the cause of the outbreak was the public water pump system in the area. The outbreak declined and no more incidence of cholera was reported after determining the cause of disease and this had been perceived as a major event in the history of public health and was regarded as the founding event of the science of epidemiology.

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1854

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Who is the Modern Father of Epidemiology

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Dr. John Snow

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What caused the outbreak of cholera in London’s Soho District

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public water pump system

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Broad Street Pump

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John Snow and Cholera

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In 1847 brought down infant mortality at a Vienna hospital by instituting hand washing procedures.

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Ignaz Semmelweis

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He was regarded as the “Father of Handwashing”.

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Ignaz Semmelweis

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the single most important measure to reduce disease transmission from one person to another

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Handwashing

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the single most important measure to reduce disease transmission from one person to another

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Handwashing

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What date did Joseph Lister discovered aseptique/aseptic (from asepsis meaning without infection) technique which is geared towards the prevention of microorganisms from reaching susceptible areas thereby preventing the spread of disease.

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1865

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without infection

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Asepsis

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The International Epidemiological Association endorsed the following aims of epidemiology

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  • To describe the distribution & magnitude of health & disease problems
  • To identify the etiology
  • To provide the data necessary
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cause of disease

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etiology

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the first phase of any investigation.

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Descriptive

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Descriptive protocol includes what?

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Population, Disease, Time, Place, Personal Factors, Disease measured using statistics, cause of disease is investigated and reported

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use of case studies

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Analytical

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use of laboratory animals and different study designs to identify disease association

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Experimental

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the disease is transmissible from one human to another. (person-person transmission)

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Communicable disease

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a communicable disease that is EASILY transmitted from one person to another

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Contagious disease

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All contagious diseases are communicable, but not all communicable diseases are contagious disease. True or false?

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True

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infectious diseases that humans acquire from animal sources

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Zoonotic diseases (zoonoses)

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the number of NEW cases of a particular disease in a defined population during a specific time period.

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Incidence

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the TOTAL number of cases of a disease existing in a given population.

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PREVALENCE

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2 types of prevalence

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Period prevalence and point prevalence

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number of cases of a specific disease existing in a given population during a specific time period. (e.g. there are 119 cases of gonorrhea in Batangas province during 2007.)

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Period prevalence

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number of cases of a specific disease existing in a given population at a particular moment in time. (e.g. there are 201 cases of acute respiratory infection in Batangas province at this moment.)

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Point prevalence

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numerical expression of the number of disease cases that occur during a specific time period per a specifically defined population.

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Morbidity rate (disease rate)

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Mortality rate (death rate)- refers to the number of people who died of a particular disease during a specific time period per a specifically defined population

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Mortality rate (death rate)

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refers to the number of people who died of a particular disease during a specific time period per a specifically defined population

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Mortality rate (death rate)

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defined as GREATER THAN USUAL NUMBER OF CASES of a disease in a particular region usually for a short period of time.

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Epidemic diseases (outbreak diseases)

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refer to diseases that are ALWAYS PRESENT within the population of a particular geographic area. The number of cases may fluctuate over time but the disease never dies out completely.

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Endemic diseases

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refer to diseases that only occurs OCCASIONALLY within the population of a particular geographic area.

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Sporadic diseases

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diseases occurring in epidemic proportions in many countries simultaneously WORLDWIDE

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Pandemic diseases

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