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| _____ is the core science of public health. |
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| Epidemiology is the study of |
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| how disease is distributed in populations and the factors that influence or determine disease distribution. |
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| Credited with allying philosophy and medicine |
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| Particles of decomposed matter become part of the air and this “miasma” spreads disease |
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| Pre-1900′s, the predominant theory behind disease transmission was |
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| cholera was spread through |
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| a British physician who discovered the cholera outbreak in 1813 was being being spread through contaminated water,by mapping out the infected areas |
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| one of the first epidemiologists |
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| identified V. cholerae as the bacillus causing the cholera disease |
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| a variable associated with an increased risk of disease or infection. |
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| a variable associated with either increased or decreased risk. |
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| the impact of a health problem as measured by financial cost, mortality, morbidity, or other indicators. |
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| disease burden is often quantified in terms of |
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| quality-adjusted life years (QALYs) or disability-adjusted life years (DALYs), both of which quantify the number of years lost due to disease. |
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