M1: Introduction to Epidemiology Flashcards
Rank of the Philippines in the Nikkei Covid 19 and Bloomber Covid 19 index
2nd to the last
This index measures the countries’ COVID infection management, vaccine rollout, and social mobility after each Month
Nikkei Asia
Nikkei Asia scoring
0-90
Philippines specific rank in Nikkei Covid 19 recovery index
120 with a score of 26
An investigator who studies the occurrences of disease in a population
Epidemiologist
Epidemiology comes from these 3 Greek words
- Epi - upon
- Demos - people
- Logos - study
Study of distribution and determinants of health related states in specified populations
Epidemiology
A highly quantitative discipline based on principles of statistics and research methodologies
Study
5 How is study conducted
- Observation
- Hypothesis
- Analysis
- Experiment
- Surveillance
Refers to the (frequencies and patterns) of health events within groups in a population
Distribution
Part of epidemiology that characterizes health events in terms of person, place and time
Descriptive epidemiology
(Search for the cause) with the increase risk of disease
determinants
Part of epidemiology that answers the “how” and “why”
Analytical epidemiology
Composes of the WHOLE SPECTRUM of health related events.
Health related states
Deals with groups of people rather than the individual
Population epidemiology
Steers public health decision making and aids in developing and evaluating interventions to control and prevent health problems
Control
Community efforts aimed to prevent disease and promote health
Public Health
Since epidemiology draws on many fields of study it is considered…
interdisciplinary
_____ is the basic science of public health
Epidemiology
Founder of Biostatistics and demography
John Graunt
First to conduct (descriptive) epidemiologic study
John Graunt
When did Graunt conduct descriptive epidemiologic study
1662
Book written by Graunt
The Nature and political observations made upon the Bills of Mortality
4 Observations in Graunt’s book
(BDSM)
- Born boys are more many than girls
- Death rate increase in autumn
- Some disease keep a proportion while some dont
- 1 Man to 2 Women who attend a physician