Epidemiology Ch.3
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- Who established that personal behavior and diseases are linked, and that body composition plays a factor?
- Hippocrates
- Who suggested a relationship between the occurrence of disease and the physical environment, seasons, climate and time?
- Hippocrates
- Who provided insights on the effects of the seasons of the year and of hot and cold winds?
- Hippocrates
- Who identified hot and cold diseases and hot and cold treatments?
- Hippocrates
- Who believed the properties of water should be examined?
- Hippocrates
- Who began using the mortality count?
- John Graunt
- Who began descriptive characteristics of birth and death data?
- John Graunt
- Who began quantitative/statistical analysis of population data.
- John Graunt
- Who began organization of mortality data?
- John Graunt
- Who discovered that scurvy was due to lack of vitamin c?
- James Lind
- Who used Black Box epidemiology?
- James Lind
- Who used "time, place, and person?"
- James Lind
- Who conducted two major epidemiological studies of cholera?
- John Snow
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Who came up with the 3 levels of fever?
What are the 3 levels of fever? - Snydenham; continued, intermittent, small pox
- What are the 5 parts to epidemiological process?
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1.) Observe the environment
2.) Record your observations
3.) Keep in mind "time, place, and person"
4.) Develop theory and methodology
5.) Write down your findings so others can follow - Who is responsible for the first major recording of vital statistics?
- John Graunt
- Who looked to people instead of the fomites and the food and water to identify the means of communication of typhoid fever?
- George Soper
- The aim of this study was to determine which of the many risks factors contribute most to cardiovascular disease?
- The Framingham Heart Study
- Who is considered the Father of Medicine?
- Hippocrates
- Who conducted experiments using causation and intervention?
- James Lind
- Who was the first to use infection control measures?
- Semmelweis
- Who indentified studied water borne diseases?
- Robert Koch
- ___ and ___ put to rest the notion of spontaneous generation.
- Robert Koch and Pasteur
- Who identified tuberculosis and cholera?
- Robert Koch
- Who advanced the use of vitral statistics and organized and developed a modern vital statistics system?
- William Farr
- Who is considered the Father of Occupational Health?
- Ramazzini
- Who investigated and described work-related maladies?
- Ramazzini
- Who discovered lead poisoning?
- Ramazzini
- Berberi is due to lack of ___.
- B Complex
- Rickets is due to lack of ___.
- vitamin D
- Pellagra is due to lack of ___.
- B Complex
- ___ helped advance the study of morbidity statistics.
- Sydenstricker
- Because of a report written by this person, boards of health and local public health departments were established.
- Lemuel Shattuck
- ___ published the 1st report on sanitation and public health problems in Massachusetts.
- Lemuel Shattuck
- A study conducted by ___ showed that cigarette smokers had more lung cancer than nonsmokers.
- Doll and Hill
- Berberi and Pellagra are due to lack of ___.
- B complex