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Definition
Epidemiology   study of distribution and determinants of health related states  
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Health   The absence of illness  
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What are the six dimensions of health?   Physical, social, mental, emotional, spiritual, environmental  
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Core functions of public health   Assessment, policy development, and assurance  
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Population   Collection of individuals that share one or more observable characteristics  
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Distribution   Study of frequency and pattern of health events  
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Frequency   Number, and number in relation to the population  
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Pattern   The health related state or event by person, place, and time characteristics  
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Determinants   Search for causes and other factors for health related events  
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What are the health related states or events?   Disease states (Cholera), Conditions associated with health (physical activity), events (injury_)  
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Scientific method in regards to epi   The health problem, hypotheses, statistical testing, interpretation, and dissemination  
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Descriptive epidemiology   Involves designs to study who, what, when, and where  
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Analytic epi   Studies why and how health related events occur. Trying to find patterns and solve problems  
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Activities performed in epi   Identifying risk factors, describing disease history, where the health problem is the greatest, monitoring diseases over time, evaluating programs  
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Epi information   Public health assessment, causes of disease, completing clinical picture, program. Eveluation  
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What do you measure in program evaluation?   Efficacy and effectiveness  
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Efficacy   ability of a program to produce a desired effect among those who participate compared to those who do not participate  
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Effectiveness   Ability of a program to produce benefits among those who are offered the program  
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Questions that need epi   Diagnosis, causes, treatment, prognosis, health promotion and practice, health and disease surveillance, health inequalities  
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Epidemic   Health related state or event in a defined population above the expected in a given period of time (example: really bad flu season)  
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Endemic   Persistant, usual, expected health event in a defined population over a given period of time (example: AIDS/Malaria)  
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Pandemic   An epidemic that crosses borders including to other countries and continents  
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Common source   Point, intermittent, and continuous  
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What happens when you remove the common source?   Epidemic rapidly decreases because source of outbreak was contained  
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Propagated source   Spread from person to person through direct or indirect routes. These can happen more slowly  
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Mixed epidemics   A mix of the previous two. Can occur when a common source outbreak is followed by a person to person outbreak.  
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Direct transmission   Person to person typically  
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Indirect methods   Vehicle borne, or vector borne  
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Example of direct transmission   STDs  
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Example of vehicle borne disease   HIV spread through dirty needles  
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Ex of vector borne   Malaria spread through mosquitoes  
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Case definition   Standard set of criteria. Makes sure that the disease is consistently diagnosed. They include: person, place, time, clinical criteria  
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Case   Person who has been diagnosed with having a disease or disorder  
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Primary case   First disease case in the population  
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Index case   First disease brought to the attention of the epidemiologist  
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Secondary case   Those who become infected after its been introduced and who gets infected from the primary case  
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Suspect   An individual who has all the signs and symptoms of a disease but have not been diagnosed  
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Confirmed   All criteria met and have confirmed to have disease  
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Three sides to the epi triangle for infectious disease   Environment, infectious agent, and host  
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Fomites   Objects that may harbor a disease agent such as clothing, towels, utensils, needles  
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Vector   An invertebrate animal capable of transmitting the infectious disease  
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Reservior   The habitat on which an infectious agent lives, grows, multiplies, and depends on for its survival in nature. Ex: humans, animals, food, feces  
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Zoonosis   When an animal transmits a disease to the human. (Rabies)  
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Carrier   A carrier contains, spreads, or harbors the infectious organism (Typhoid Mary)  
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Active carrier   Individual has been exposed and is harboring pathogen  
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Convalescent carrier   Individual still in recovery from disease who is still infectious  
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Healthy carrier   Exposed to pathogen but has no symptoms  
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Incubatory carrier   Exposed to pathogen and is at beginning steps of disease, showing symptoms, and is infectious  
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Intermittent carrier   Individual in recovery from disease who is still infectious in different places or time intervals  
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Epi triangle for chronic diseases   Environment, group/population, and causative factors.  
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Chain of infection   Mode of transmission, portal of entry, susceptible host, infectious agent, reservoir, portal of exit  
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Hippocrates   First epidemiologist, ascribed to atomic theory, observed diseases in different places, introduced terms such as epidemic and endemic.  
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Thomas Syndeham   First really to study observation- relied on “unorthodox treatments” such as fresh air and healthy diet  
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James Lind   Did experimental treatments for scurvy on sailors, used clinical observation  
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Benjamin Jesty   One of the first in western civilization to study effects of smallpox and cowpox. Observations from milkmaids.  
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Edward Jenner   Credited for laying the groundwork for vaccination. Actually gave his milkmaid cowpox and she did not catch the disease. Used VARIOLATION  
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Ignaz Semmelweis   Credited with advancements in hand washing because of observations of women dying after routine pelvic exams given by medical students who did not wash their hands.  
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John Snow   Cholera outbreak epidemiologist in London. Used both descriptive and analytical.  
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Louis Pasteur   Important figure in germ theory. Investigated how humans contracted anthrax. And discovered a vaccine for it too.  
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Robert Koch   Worked with Pasteur to establish germ theory. First to photograph microbes. Identified spore stage of microorganisms.  
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Antoni Van Leeuwenhoek   First to use the microscope to study disease. Discovered “animalcules” which were what he saw under the microscope. Led to development of chemistry and histology.  
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John Gaunt   Used the “bills of mortality” in London- age, sex, who died, etc. developed life tables Divided them into acute and chronic death.  
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William Farr   Noted as first to extensively use vital statistics. Promoted concept of multi-factorial etiology.  
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Bernadino Ramazzini   Noted the link between occupational hygiene and health. Workers were getting diseases as a direct cause of work exposure.  
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Florence nightingale   British nurse who helped develop changes in hygiene. Monitored rates to prove that hygiene affected death. Developed applied statistics  
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Typhoid mary   Had no symptoms, gave it to other people. Confined and isolated  
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T.K. Takaki   Noted for recognizing the importance of vitamins. Eradicated beriberi from Japanese navy.  
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Lemuel Shattuck   Published first report on sanitation and public health problems. Set forth the importance of establishing health boards and organizing the effort to collect data  
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Edgar Sydenstricker   Suggested morbidity statistics be classified into 5 general groups: Communicable diseases, hospital and clinical records, insurance and establishment of school illness records, illness surveys, records of incidence in a population  
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Jane Lane-Claypon   Recognized the importance of breastfeeding, advocate of prenatal services. Recognized factors associated with breast cancer.  
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Wade Hampton Frost   Father of modern epidemiology, investigated flu pandemic, advanced many different parts of epidemiology  
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Framingham study   Prospective cohort study on cardiovascular disease. Has given us extremely helpful  
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Epi of smoking and lung cancer   Case-control studies done in the 50s to establish a link. Also cohort studies done. Yeah  
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Modern epi people   Olli Miettinen, Austin Bradford Hill, Joseph Fleiss  
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What is disease?   Interruption, cessation, or disorder of body functions, systems, or organs  
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Etiology   Science and study of the causes of disease and their mode of operation.  
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Communicability   Ability to transfer disease- HIV, cholera, influenza  
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Horizontal transmission   Transmission of infectious agents from person to person (influenza)  
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Vertical transmission   Transmission of offspring from parents. Through sperm, placenta, milk, or vaginal fluid.  
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Infectious disease   Disease caused by microorganism  
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Pathogen   Organisms such as prions, bacteria, fungi, that are capable of producing diseases.  
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Invasiveness   The ability to get into a susceptible host and cause disease  
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Virulence   The disease evoking power of a pathogen  
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Toxins   Term used to describe a poisonous substance produced by a living organism  
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Viability   The capacity of a pathogen or agent to survive outside the host and to exist or thrive in the environment.  
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Incubation period   Period of time from exposure to symptoms  
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Latency period   For chronic diseases. Typically harder to identify since the causes are lifestyle choices that cause the disease.  
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Stages of disease process   Susceptibility, pre-symptomatic disease, clinical disease, and recovery, disability or death.  
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Congenital and hereditary diseases   Familial tendencies, born with the disease. Ex: Down syndrome, hemophilia, congenital heart defects  
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Allergies and inflammatory diseases   Body reacting to an invasion of or injury by a foreign object or substance  
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Degenerative diseases   Deterioration of body systems, functions. EX: Alzheimer’s, osteoporosis, arthritis  
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Metabolic diseases   Cause dysfunction of certain organs or physiological processes. Many are hereditary. Works with how cells regulate and conversion of food to energy. EX: Tay-Sachs  
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Common modes of entry into the body of infectious disease agents   Respiratory, organ, intravenous, urinary, gastrointestinal, transplacental  
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Zoonotic disease   An infectious organism in vertebrate animals that can be transmitted to humans through direct contact, a fomite, or vector.  
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Notifiable diseases   Considerable public health importance because they are serious.  
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Active immunity   The body produces its own antibiotics, this can occur through vaccine or already having the disease  
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Passive immunity   Acquired through transplacental transfer of mothers immunity to child.  
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Herd immunity   Based on the notion that if many people are protected from a disease that an epidemic will not occur.  
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Isolation   Applies to a person who are known to be ill with a contagious disease  
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Quarantine   Applies to a person who may have been exposed but may or may not have become ill.  
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