Comp bio - Shaw guest lecture

What is epidemiology?

Study of what happens to a population, often looking at distribution and determinants of health-related states among populations and the application of findings to help control health problems

What does the study use?

Sound scientific methods, it is data driven, and multidisciplinary (looks at behavior, social science, statistics)

What does the definition mean by distribution?

Frequency, and patterns of the events, patterns refer to person, place, and time

Descriptive epidemiology

founded on the study of person,place, and timing of events

What looking at determinants mean?

What causes these health problems, how and why

Analytic epidemiology

The how and why of a health related problem

space

a physical location that is yet to be bound with meaning

place

has meaning and connectedness, has many different scales (home, neighborhood, country)

How did health manitoba study chlamydia and gonorrhea

Using case-contact study, who did you sleep with and who did they sleep with

What types of connections did they discover?

Linear and radial connections (wheel and spoke)

What are they noticing about syphilis

Was almost non-existent but suddenly it is coming back, and seeing a rise since 2011 to 2017, in both males and females, and males are a higher risk group

Social structures

Provide stability within systems, important because they show more information about the study subject (wheel and spoke connections, linear connections, how many people they interact with)

What was noted about where the diseases were found?

There was a relationship between access to care, number of people in the area, and location (higher within indigenous communities, less in larger more developed provinces, higher in northern manitoba)