Foundation of Epidemiology Terms
A branch of medicine that deals with incidence, distribution and any possible control of diseases that relate to health
What is epidemiology?
An interruption, cessation, or disorder of body functions, systems or organs
What is disease?
Has a single axis and presents a summary of data
What is a box plot?
A disease that persists for a long period of time
What is chronic disease?
A way of organizing and analyzing data on health and disease in order to understand the differences in disease frequency geographically and overtime and how a disease varies among people based on personal characteristics such as person, place, and time
What is descriptive epidemiology?
A widespread of an infectious disease to a community
What is an epidemic?
Science and study relating to the causes of the disease and mode of operation
What is etiology?
A survey conducted at a certain point in time
What is a cross sectional survey?
The nation's leading cause of death
What is heart disease?
Systematic ongoing collection, analysis, interpretation, and dissemination of health data
What is a public health surveillance?
When a disease or condition is normally found among a certain group of people or in a particular area
What is endemic?
An infectious disease that is capable of being transmitted or contagious
What is a communicable disease?
A histogram which shows the course of an epidemic by plotting the number of cases by time
What is an epidemic curve?
A chronic disease when the pancreas does not produce enough insulin or when the body can not effectively use the insulin it is producing
What is diabetes?
Used to track and compare changes in population age distribution over time, dynamic and changes over time
What is population pyramid?
When a disease is prevalent across an entire country or the world
What is pandemic?
Organisms or substances like bacteria, protozoa, viruses, fungi, abnormal, or parasites that can produce a disease
What are pathogens?
A form of statistical modeling often used for categorical outcome variables
What is logistic regression?
Period of subclinical or inapparent pathologic changes following exposure and ending with an onset of symptoms of chronic disease
What is latency period?
Change in the rate of a condition according to the birth year
What is cohort effect?
A measure of the public health impact of a causative factor, or a proportion of a disease in a group that is exposed to a certain factor which can be attributed to their exposure of that factor
What is attributable proportion?
A disease that causes the dysfunction, poor function, or malfunction of certain organs or physiologic processes in the body
What is metabolic disease?
An error that occurs if one mistakenly assumes that just because a majority of a group has a certain characteristic, the characteristic is associated with those experiencing the outcome
What is ecological fallacy?
A disease caused by an uncontrolled amount of abnormal cells in a body
What is cancer?
The description of a relationship by age between those who have the potential to be self supporting and dependent segments of the population
What is dependency ration?