Measuring and Describing Disease Pt.1

Question 1

What is the exposure?

Answer 1

independent variable

Question 2

What is the outcome?

Answer 2

dependent (measurable) variable

Question 3

What is an epidemic?

Answer 3

diseases that befall a population

Question 4

What is endemic?

Answer 4

disease that resides in a population

Question 5

What is primary prevention?

Answer 5

prevention of disease through the control of exposure to risk factors

Question 6

What is secondary prevention?

Answer 6

application of available measures to detect early departures from health introduce appropriate treatment

Question 7

What is tertiary prevention?

Answer 7

application of measure to reduce or eliminate long term impairments and disabilities, minimising suffering, promote the patients adjustment to their condition

Question 8

What is the epidemiological transition?

Answer 8

transition from communicable to non communicable diseases (pestilence/famine > degenerative disease)