The occurrence in a community or region of cases of an illness, specific health-related behavior, or other health related events clearly in excess of normal expectancy.
What is an epidemic?
100
This term pertains to either contact with a disease causing factor or to the amount of the factor that impinges upon a group of individual.
What is exposure?
100
This individual is said to be the first to employ quantitative methods to describe population vital statistics.
Who is John Grant?
100
This individual is regarded as the founder of the field of occupational medicine.
Who is Ramazzini?
100
This use diagnoses the health or the community and the condition of the people, to measure the true dimensions and distribution of ill health in terms of incidence, prevalence, disability, and mortality.
What is community health use?
200
An epidemic occurring worldwide, or over a very wide area, crossing international boundaries and usually affecting a large number of people.
What is a pandemic?
200
All the inhabitants of a given country or areas considered together.
What is population?
200
This individual in Classical Antiquity departed from superstitious reasons for diseases and suggested a rational approach.
Who is Hippocrates?
200
This Scottish research discovered the antimicrobial properties of Penicillium notatum, leading to the development of penicillin.
Who is Alexander Flemming?
200
This use documents the patterns, types, and causes of morbidity and mortality over time.
What is historical use?
300
The science concerned with the distribution and determinants of health and diseases, morbidity, injuries, disability, and morality in populations.
What is epidemiology?
300
All the possible results that may stem from exposure to a causal factor.
What is outcome?
300
This individual is thought to be the first person to describe an environmental cause of cancer.
Who is Sir Percival Pott?
300
This individual is credited with application of epidemiological methods such as mapping to solve the London Cholera epidemic in the nineteenth century.
Who is John Snow?
300
This use searches for causes of health and disease by computing the experience of groups defined by their composition, inheritance, and experience, their behavior, and their environments.
What is disease causality use?
400
This term implies that the occurrence of diseases and other health outcomes varies in populations, with some subgroups of the populations more frequently affected than others.
What is distribution?
400
A collective or individual risk factor that is causally related to a health condition, outcome, or other defined characteristic.
What is determinant?
400
A founder of the field of toxicology and advanced the concept of the dose-response relationship.
Who is Paracelsus?
400
This individual developed a more sophisticated system for codifying medical conditions. He also used census reports to study occupational mortality.
Who is William Farr?
400
This use studies the working of health services with a view to their improvement.
What is health services use?
500
Illness due to a specific disease or health condition is known as?
What is morbidity?
500
This term refers to causes of death.
What is mortality?
500
This individual developed the smallpox vaccine.
Who is Edward Jenner?
500
This German physician verified that human disease was caused by organisms such as bacteria.
Who is Robert Koch?
500
This application is to estimate from the group experience what are the individual risks on average of disease, accident, and defect, and the chances of avoiding them.