Public Health
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- How does the role of veterinarian differ from that of an epidemiologist? What does each study?
- hiv can live in a needle for how many days
- are blood transfusions tested for hiv
- would the contagion respirator mask with a valve work?
- was the contagion spillover event plausible?
- what was the main disease people with hiv were dying from
- Incubation periods of most foodborne illnesses (especially those with bacteria involved) is
- when was the first hiv virus discovered
- on the average person/people within sub-populations, rather than on individuals
- highly positivist, leans more left, dismissive of rational choice theory
- individual and the group, social/economic causes of health disparities
- sociologists believe that rational choice theory is inherently limited, life is less driven by choice and more decided for us
- public health - current monitoring and less on explaining or extremely detailed descriptions, does not fix underlying non-health problems that cause population health
- government linkages, which discipline is considered most important
- displaying average population patterns in health/demography
- disease transmited by non-human animal reservoirs are termed_____
- Analytic Epidemiology asks the question of...
- if something is an attributable risk/rate, fraction what do you need to do
- 3 levels of prevention of injury death: - _____ prevention: conditions prevailing _____ the event - _____ prevention: conditions prevailing _____ the event - _____ prevention: _____ and quality of emergency care
- Top 10 public health achievements of the 20th century:1. Routine use of _____2. Improvements in motor vehicle safety3. Safer workplaces4. Control of _____ diseases5. Decline in deaths from heart disease and stroke6. Safer and healthier _____7. Healthier _____ and babies8. Access to family planning and contraceptive services9. _____ of drinking water10. Recognition of _____ use as a health hazard