Lecture 1: Intro to Health & Disease in Individual & Populations

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What are the social determinants of health?

environment, animal, human

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What are the big three aspects of the one health definition?

global context, culture, economics

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Of emerging and reemerging infections, what percentage is vector-borne or zoonotic?

70%

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What are the three factors of the epidemiologic triad?

agent, host, environment

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What do the three factors of the epidemiologic triad determine?

disease potential

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________ is when infectious agents multiply rapidly to high levels.

amplification

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What does spillover require in humans to sustain human transmission?

amplification

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What are reasons we are seeing emerging disease?

  • pollution and global warming

  • land use change near the confluence of the Parana and Iguazu Rivers, Brazil

  • food production

  • world population growth

  • urbanization

  • global trade & travel

  • disasters and conflict

  • antibiotic resistance

  • immunocomprimization

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What are the two main reasons we are seeing emerging diseases?

  1. land use and ecosystem changes

  2. climate and weather