A Pocket Guide to Epidemiology David G. Kleinbaum Kevin M. Sullivan Nancy D. Barker A Pocket Guide to Epidemiology David G. Kleinbaum Department of Epidemiology Rollins School of Public Health Emory University 1518 Clifton Road‚ NE Atlanta‚ GA 30322 USA dkleinb@sph.emory.edu Nancy D. Barker 2465 Traywick Chase Alpharetta‚ GA 30004 USA ndbarker@eathlink.net Kevin M. Sullivan Department of Epidemiology Rollins School of Public Health Emory University 1518 Clifton Road‚ NE Atlanta‚ GA
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Ch. 2: Fundamentals of Epidemiology Causality: determining the cause of a disease Screening test: test given to people who have no symptoms to check for the presence of a particular disease Natural History of Disease: the course of disease if left untreated Latency period: time from start of disease process until signs/symptoms appear (Incubation period: time b/w infection & clinical disease) Nonclinical stage: no signs/symptoms present – pathologic changes occur Preclinical – sings/symptoms
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Name : Traviata Prakarti Student Number : 1206211606 Faculty of Public Health‚ A201 Writing Task page 146 “The Reason Why I Choose Public Health Program” Public health is the science and art of protecting and improving the health of communities through education‚ promotion of healthy lifestyles‚ and research for disease and injury prevention. Public health is concerned with protecting the health of entire populations. These populations can be as small as a local neighborhood‚ or as big
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Annotated Bibliography Gold‚ D. R.‚ Wang‚ X.‚ Wypij‚ D.‚ Speizer‚ F. E.‚ Ware‚ J. H.‚ & Dockery‚ D. W. (1996). Effects of Cigarette Smoking on Lung Function in Adolescent Boys and Girls. New England Journal of Medicine‚ 335(13)‚ 931-937. doi:10.1056/nejm199609263351304 A scholarly article named “Effects of Cigarette Smoking on Lung Function in Adolescent Boys and Girls” that is published by the “New England Journal of Medicine” investigates the relationship between cigarette smoking and lung function
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PUBH 6040 - Public Health Ethics Please note: I reserve the right to change the syllabus as needed. I will promptly contact students in advance of changes and at the time a revised syllabus is posted. Course Description According to the United States Centers for Disease Control and Prevention‚ “Public Health Ethics is the application of relevant principles and values to public health decision making. In applying an ethics framework‚ public health ethics inquiry carries out three core functions
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Stephen Johnson’s The Ghost Map: The Story of London’s Most Terrifying Epidemic—and How It Changed Science‚ Cities‚ and the Modern World‚ is a nonfiction book that examines the cholera outbreak that occurred in the late summer of 1854 in London‚ England. At that time‚ London was the largest city that the world had seen‚ with a population of around two and a half million. It was the size of many modern cities but didn’t share any of the infrastructure that are so vital to larger cities‚ like clean
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0carcinoma%20cell%20proliferation%20by%20estrogen%20is%20associated%20with% 20an%20altered%20expression%20of%20Bcl-xL. McTiernan A. M.‚ Weiss N. S.‚ Daling J. R. (1984). Incidence of thyroid cancer in women in relation to reproductive and hormonal factors. Am. J. Epidemiology.‚ 120: 423-435.Retrieved September 24‚ 2012 from http://aje.oxfordjournals.org/content/120/3/423 McTiernan A.‚ Weiss N. S.‚ Daling J. R. (1987). Incidence of thyroid cancer in women in relation to known or suspected risk factors for breast cancer
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Website Review and Summary HCS/457 June 25‚ 2013 Website Review and Summary Through out the years people have relied on their health care providers for medical treatments. Now a day‚ people have the opportunity to research about any illness‚ medical concern‚ medical diagnosis and any type of disease in the Internet. There are many health care organizations that offer people around the world with information about drugs‚ illnesses‚ diseases‚ outbreaks‚ treatments
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Poor data quality will weaken awareness of disease epidemiology‚ alter program objectives‚ and hinder the ability to meet the disease control objectives. Syndromic surveillance systems must also avoid duplicating data to improve its effectiveness to detect outbreaks of diseases ("Monitoring Data Quality in
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Public health is a very broad term with many different definitions and understandings. John M. Barry defined public health as the means where the largest numbers of lives are saved‚ usually by understanding the epidemiology of a disease—its patterns‚ where and how it emerges and spreads—and attacking it at its weak points. Basically‚ it is a system that performs community service by way of publicly promoting health through accessible treatment outlets‚ providing disease prevention resources‚ and
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