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(P) Lesson 2: Epidemiology Flashcards

1
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The study of disease, injury, and death

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Epidemiology

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“The study of the distribution and determinants of health-related states and events in specified populations” whose definition does this belong to?

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CDC

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“The study of the distribution and determinants of health-related states or events and the application of this study to control health problems” whose definition does this belong to?

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WHO

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Refers to descriptive epidemiology (when, where, and who)

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Distribution

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Refers to incidence, prevalence, and mortality rates

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Frequency

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Refers to time, place, and person

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Pattern

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Refers to analytic epidemiology; deals with causes, risk factors, and modes of transmission (why and how)

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Determinants

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Refers to the agents

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Causes

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Refers to exposure to the agents

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Risk Factor

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Veni, Vidi, Vici

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”I came, I saw, I conquered”

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Discovered the theory of the four body humors produced within the body

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Hippocrates

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Discovered the “seeds of disease” and named “syphilis” in a poem

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Girolamo Fracastoro

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Stated that disease is called as an external thing referred to as an “ens” which could attack any organ of the body

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Paracelsus and JB van Helmont

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Person first to demonstrate procedures on microorganisms

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Antoni Van Leeuwenhoek

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Theory coined by Louis Pasteur; said that germs can causes diseases and developed a vaccine and treatment for anthrax and rabies

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Germ Theory

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Refers to how one germ can cause one type of disease

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Biological Specificity

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His postulates included:
- perfected growing pure bacterial colonies
- developed autoclaves
- introduced photography for what he had seen in his microscope
- identified agents that caused diseases such as tuberculosis and cholera in 1884

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Robert Koch

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He developed the “antiseptic” surgery which developed into “aseptic” surgery which he used carbolic acid dressings to disinfect surgical wounds

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Joseph Lister

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He studied cholera and concluded that it was not transmitted through miasma but through contaminated water

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John Snow

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He discovered the nature of viruses and their relationship to cells in the body

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Martinus Beijerinck

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  • Delved into the fields of microscopy, tissue staining, embryology, chemotherapy, and immunology
  • Developed the theory of the chemical nature of antigens and antibodies (lock and key)
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Paul Ehrlich

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22
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He developed a polio vaccine using a weaker strain of the virus

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Albert Sabin

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He coined the term “prion” and explained how these misfolded proteins could cause disease

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Stanley Prusiner

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He worked on the retrovirus for HIV

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Francoise Barre-Sinoussi

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25
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A concept in epidemiology referring to differences in disease and injury occurrence for different populations

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Population and Comparison

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A concept of disease occurrence which refers to the epidemiological triad or triangle

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Causation

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27
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The epidemiological triangle consists of what 3 factors?

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Agent, Environment, and Host

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Widely used method which describes the basic epidemiology of a disease; data is collated by time, place, and person

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Descriptive

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Time trend that describes the occurrence of a disease over a prolonged period of time (can take up to years)

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Secular

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Time trend that indicates change in the antigenic characteristics of the disease agent (if it can occur once, it can occur again in the future)

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Periodic

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Diseases that occur more frequently depending on what time of year it is

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Seasonal

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Refers to sudden increase in occurrence due to prevalent factors

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Epidemic occurrence of disease

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Refers to level of a disease that signals the start and end of the season

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Seasonal Threshold

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The week in which positivity rate was above the weekly average for the year and which has continued for 3 consecutive weeks

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Start or Onset of Outbreak

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The first week where the positive rate was below the weekly average which continued for 3 consecutive weeks

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End of Outbreak

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Refers to level above which the disease activity was higher than most years

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Alert Threshold

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A method that analyzes disease determinants for possible causal relationships

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Analytical

38
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Method which starts with the disease and retrospectively investigates the cause

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Case Control/Case Comparison Method

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Refers to the gathering of individuals with the disease in a case control method

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Case group

40
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Refers to the gathering of individuals similar to the case group but do not carry the disease

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Comparison (control) group

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This method prospectively studies two populations

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Cohort Method

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This population had contact with suspected causal factor under study

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Population 1

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This is a similar group that had no contact with the causal factor under a cohort study

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Population 2

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This method determines the relationship between a disease and present variables

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Cross-Sectional Method

45
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Method in which one or more selected factors are manipulated and the effects of manipulation will either confirm or disprove the hypothesis of the drug effectivity

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Experimental 1

46
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Refers to a proportion of people who died among all the individuals diagnosed with the same disease over a period of time

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Case Fatality Rate/Fatality Risk or Ratio

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This measure of mortality involves the total no. of deaths during a given time interval/mid-interval population (1,000 or 100,000)

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Crude Death Rate

48
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This measure of mortality involves the no. of deaths assigned to a specific cause during a given time interval/mid-interval population (100,000)

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Cause-specific Death Rate

49
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This measure of mortality involves the no. of deaths assigned to a specific cause during a given time interval/total no. of deaths from all causes during the same time (100 or 1,000)

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Proportionate Mortality

50
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This measure of mortality involves the no. of deaths assigned to a specific cause during a given time interval/no. of new cases of the same disease reported on the same time (100)

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Death-to-Case Ratio

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This measure of mortality involves the no. of deaths among children less than 28 days in age during a given time interval/no. of live births during the same time (1,000)

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Neonatal Mortality Rate

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This measure of mortality involves the no. of deaths among children less than 1 year old during a given time interval/no. of live births during the same time (1,000)

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Infant Mortality Rate

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Refers to living organisms or non-living sites (soil or water) for pathogen to grow

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Reservoirs

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Refers to individuals capable of transmitting pathogens without displaying symptoms

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Carrier

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Type of carrier that harbors and transmits the pathogen but is not infected

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Passive

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Type of carrier that is infected and can transmit the pathogen (symptomatic or asymptomatic)

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Active

57
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Type of transmission that is person-to-person (touching, intercourse, or droplets)

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Direct

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Type of transmission that involves inanimate objects called “fomites”

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Indirect

59
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Type of transmission where pathogens travel through water, food, air, etc.

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Vehicle Transmission

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Type of vector transmission which harbors the pathogen but is not infected (e.g. fly)

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Mechanical

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Type of vector transmission that is infected and can transmit the pathogen (e.g. flea)

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Biological

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Refers to occurrence of new cases of disease or injury in a population over a specified period of time

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Incidence

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Defined as a departure from a state of well-being as it encompasses disease, injury, and disability

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Morbidity Frequency Measures

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Measure of morbidity that involves the no. of new cases of disease during a specified time/population at the start of time interval

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Incidence Proportion (Attack Rate/Risk)

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Measure of morbidity that involves the no. of new cases among contacts/total no. of contacts

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Secondary Attack Rate

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Measure of morbidity that involves the no. of new cases of disease during a specified time/summed person to years of observation or average population during specified time

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Incidence Rate (Person-Time Rate)

67
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Measure of morbidity that involves the no. of current cases (new and existing) at a specified point/population at the same specified time

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Point Prevalence

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Measure of morbidity that involves the no. of current cases (new and existing) over a period of time/average or mid-interval population

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Period Prevalence

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Refers to relative magnitude of 2 quantities or a comparison of any 2 values

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Ratio

70
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Refers to comparison of a part to a whole; type of ratio where the numerator is included in the denominator

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Proportion

71
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A measure of frequency with which an event occurs in a defined population over a specified period of time

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