Historical Events in Epidemiology
In the 1950s two British researchers (Doll and Hill) established that this common behaviour was a strong disease risk factor. Today, public health continues to challenge industry marketing which promote alternative forms of use.
What is smoking?
A description of your first year MPH cohort
What is EPIC?
This city is where the Broad Street Pump Handle was removed in 1854
What is London, England?
Epidemiology is the study of these two aspects of health-related states or events among specified populations.
What are the distribution and determinants?
Outbreaks of this vaccine preventable disease continue to re-emerge across North America.
What is Measles?
His work in the 1850s on Cholera informed modern epidemiologic methods
Who is John Snow?
The outer layer of the skin
What is epidermis?
The U.S City has been the site of prospective cohort study of cardiovascular disease risk factors since 1948
What is Framingham?
Clinical medicine is primarily concerned with individuals and epidemiology is primarily concerned with the health of these.
What are populations?
Travellers from Uganda, South Sudan and the Democratic Republic of the Congo are currently banned from visiting Canada due to this deadly outbreak.
What is Ebola?
This infamous U.S. study followed Black men for approximately 40 years, from 1932 to 1972, and became a landmark example of unethical research.
What is the Tuskegee syphilis study?
COVID-19, SARS, EBOLA, for example.
What are epidemics?
In 2000, a deadly outbreak of E. coli contaminated the drinking water in this small Ontario town, sickened thousands and became a pivotel moment for public health in Canada.
What is Walkerton?
Vaccination is an example of this goal of epidemiology.
What is disease control (or prevention)?
Recent Canadian data showed a 40% increase in hospitalizations related to injuries from these popular devices
What are e-scooters?
Citrus fruit was shown to prevent scurvy among sailors is an example of this study design
What is an experimental study?
The final chapter or closing of a book
What is an epilogue?
This Ontario port city was the site of a cholera epidemic in the mid-1800s.
What is Hamilton?
The analysis of disease patterns according to the characteristics of person, place and time
What is disease distribution?
This outbreak spurred viral social media posts such as "You know what's never given me explosive parasitic diarrhea..."
What is the Cyclospora outbreak?
The last federally run institution of this type in Canada did not close until 1996. The Truth and Reconciliation Commission identified its lasting impacts on health and well-being, highlighting social conditions as determinants of health.
What is the residential school system?
DNA methylation or histone modification, for example
What is epigenetics?
This province in Canada has the lowest number of people living with diabetes.
What is Prince Edward Island?
(hint: PEI has the smallest population and case counts don't tell us anything about the rate of disease)
Factors that bring about change in a person's health (e.g., smoking, income, housing).
What are disease determinants?
This trendy treat became part of a major Canadian food-safety investigation after the pistachios used in it were linked to a Salmonella outbreak.
What is Dubai Chocolate?