Prof. Eneme Flashcards

Epidemiology

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What is public health

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The science of preventing disease, prolonging life, promoting health and efficiency , through organized community

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What epidemiology literally means

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The study of what befalls man

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What us Epidemiology by CDC

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Epidemiology is the study of the distribution and determinants of health - related states or events or trends in specific population

and applications of this study is to control of the health problems

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Distribution
And what angle does it give Epidemiology

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Distribution brings about frequency and pattern of health events in a population
QUANTITATIVE EPIDEMIOLOGY

Pattern
P Place
P Personal characteristics
T. Time

It give Epidemiology a Discripive angle
And answers the questions
WHO, WHERE, AND WHEN

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Determinants
What angles does it give Epidemiology

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Epidemiologist studies what determines health events
They compare groups with different rates of disease occurrence and with difference in demographic characteristics

Angle.
Analytical Epidermiologist

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