Disease detectives

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Clinical Health

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deals with personal healthcare issues (at the individual level)

focuses on treatment

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Public health

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the practice of protecting and improving the health of a population

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Clinical Health

deals with personal healthcare issues (at the individual level)

focuses on treatment

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Public health

the practice of protecting and improving the health of a population

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Outbreak

A sudden rise in the incidence of a disease

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Epidemic

A widespread outbreak of an infectious disease.

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Pandemic

A global outbreak of disease

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Surveillance (of disease)

The systematic, ongoing collection, analysis, interpretation, and dissemination of health data.

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Risk

likelihood of being affected by a disease

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vector

a living organism that transmits disease from an infected animal to a human or another animal

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5-step process for surveillance

data collection

data analysis

data interpretation

link to action

Evaluation

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Active vs passive surveilance

Activity collect data vs hospitals share cases into databases

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Case-control study

A type of epidemiologic study where a group of individuals with the diseases, referred to as cases, are compared to individuals without the disease, referred to as controls

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cohort study

A type of epidemiologic study where a group of exposed individuals (individuals who have been exposed to the potential risk factor) and a group of non-exposed individuals are followed over time to determine the incidence of disease

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ecological study

a study in which the units of analysis are populations or groups of people rather than individuals

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cross-sectional studies

A type of research design that compares individuals of different ages to determine how they differ at one point in time

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Steps of an Outbreak Investigation

1. Verify diagnosis

2. Define/ identify cases

3. Develop hypothesis

4. Evaluate hypothesis

5. Implement control measures

6. Share findings

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Epi Curves

graph of disease over time

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Line listings

a table for tracking cases by different variables

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cluster maps

representation of disease by location

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attack rate

percentage of people who become ill in population after exposure

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number of new cases divided by total population at risk

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relative risk

Comparison of risk between groups

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odds ratio

Comparison of risk between two groups

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Bradford Hill Criteria

Wether observed association between risk factor and disease is casual: Strength, consistency, specificity, temporality, biological gradient, plausibility, coherence, experiment, and analogy

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Incidence rate

of new cases divided by population at risk

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prevalence rate

total number of cases divided by the population

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mortality rate

number of deaths sue to a specific cause divided by total population.

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strategies of disease control

containment(quarantine or isolation)

vaccination

Behavioral intervention(hygiene or campaigns)

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levels of prevention

primary(prevent disease-vaccine), secondary(early detection-screening), tertiary(managing disease-treatment)

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Herd immunity

The resistance of a group to an attack by a disease to which a large proportion of the members of the group are immune

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Confidence intervals

the range on either side of an estimate that is likely to contain the true value for the whole population

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vaccine effectiveness

the rate of protection against a pathogen when a vaccine is administered to the general population

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case control study

A type of epidemiologic study where a group of individuals with the diseases, referred to as cases, are compared to individuals without the disease, referred to as controls

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cross-sectional study

a study in which people of different ages are compared with one another

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herd immunity threshold

the density of resistant hosts in the population required to prevent an epidemic

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Father of epidemiology

John snow