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What is epidemiology?
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The branch of medicine that deals with the incidence, distribution, and possible control of diseases and other factors relating to health
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What is nosology?
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The classification of disease
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What is the zymotic theory of disease?
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Proposed that products of organic decomposition entered body via respiratory tract (obsolete from 1900)
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Key contribution of Bentham
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'Greatest happiness of the greatest number'
'Welfare through workhouses' |
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Key contribution of Chadwick
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Sanitary reformer
Illustrations of filth and degradation among lower classes ^ Connected to prevalence of disease and high mortality due to poor sanitary provisions, drainage and water supply (remember 'pump' image with death rate near it- that was Snow) Bequest UCL to extend education in hygiene! |
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Key contribution of Farr
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Repots on cholera epidemics
Statistical nosology, classification of diseases Produced life tables to look at mortality Zymotic theory of disease |
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Key contribution of Nightingale
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Observations in army hospitals and out mortality down to their poor condition
Wrote on matters affecting health Used graphics in arguments |
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Key contribution of Snow
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Cholera 'Broad Street pump'
Mapped cholera deaths Discovered cholera waterborne - not accepted by peers |
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Key contribution of Klein
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Epidemiology of dental caries, importance of fluoride,
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What is miasma theory?
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The idea that a vapour (masima) emanated from filth, disease and death. Inhalation lead to illness and death (obsolete by 1900)
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