Power Points Flashcards
Symptomatics
things we can see
Asymptomatics
things we can not see
Diseases
Impairment of normal state (homeostasis) of the living animal or plant body or component thereof
What is the leading killer of humans?
mosquitos
Who is the father of medicine?
Hippocrates
What are the four humors of life?
blood
phlegm
yellow bile
black bile
Most common way ancient people treated disease?
Blood letting
Which civilization began to take public health measures?
Rome
The Renaissance brought what idea to replace the humoral theory?
contagion
Who came up with the idea of vaccination?
Edward Jenner
Louis Pasteur
pasteurization
Koch’s postulates for linking agent to a disease
- organism must be present in a disease
- can be grow in culture
- cause disease when injected into a healthy animal
- Can be recovered from newly diseased animal
Joseph Lister
use of antiseptic procedures
What is the current disease causation theory?
multiple causation
Epidemiology
observation of occurrence of disease in populations
Hyperferritinema
too much iron in the blood (blood letting is treatment)
Morbidity
a diseased state or symptom
Nosocomial Infections
infections contracted from hospital stays
Inductive Reasoning
goes from the specific to the general
Deductive Reasoning
reasoning which constructs or evaluates deductive arguments. Deductive arguments are attempts to show that a conclusion necessarily follows from a set of premises
Antibiotic
resistance threat
CDC
The U.S. Government’s lead public health agency
-itis
swelling
-iasis
infested with
-ology
the study of
Epidemiology
is the study of the determinants, occurrence, and distribution of health and disease in a defined population