Week 2-2-1

Question 1

Challenges with epidemiology

Answer 1

1) Measurment problems
-self reporting is often biased and wrong
-poor understanding about the body
2) Culturally sensitive symptom criteria
3) identifying risk factors that are specific to a particular mental health disorders

Question 2

Three eras apart if epidemiology history

Answer 2

Sanitary era

Infectious disease era

Risk factors era

Question 3

Sanitary Era

Answer 3

Cholera outbreak

Guiding theory: Miasma Theory—> we can get sick from trash or unsanitary material

Question 4

Infectious disease era

Answer 4

Microorganisms were being discovered

Germ theory: germ can make us sick

Question 5

Risk factor era

Answer 5

1940-2010

People living longer but rise in chronic diseases due to lifestyle factor/genetics

Black box theory: we will never really know what causes chronic diseases by so many factors participate in those diseases

Question 6

Current perspectives of epidemiology

Answer 6

Eco Epidemiology

Social ecological systems theory