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3/31 Epidemiology

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24 questions
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Define Public Health

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How would you get information about events, behaviors, or environmental conditions that affect public health?

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What does a public health investigation start with?

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Why do you think mosquito breeding could be relevant to the investigation?

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Do you know of any diseases spread by mosquitoes?

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What environmental factors might affect mosquito populations?

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What did investigators know-and not know-about the diseases outbreak to this point? (What data did they have to work with?)

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What is epidemiology?

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Relate what you saw in Mystery Illness in NYC to the process epidemiologists use.

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Whom did New York City public health workers interview when they began their investigation? What questions did they ask?

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What did they suspect might be responsible for transmitting diseases to the human population? How did they come up with this idea?

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What did the investigators do next to test their hypothesis?

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Name some ways in which infectious diseases are transmitted from one organism to another.

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How does understanding the source of transmission of a disease help stop its spread?

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What evidence led investigators to conclude a mosquito was responsible for transmitting the disease?

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Discuss how the CDC made its initial diagnosis, why everyone wasn’t convinced at first, and what convinced the CDC to reconsider its diagnosis?

Use this PPT to answer the chart.

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Use the PPT to answer the chart.

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Use the PPT to answer the chart.

Notes: Urban Ecology has led to higher disease risk

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Use Services:

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Restaurants and pre-made food:

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Beauty parlors/Barbershops have increased services:

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Health Clubs and gyms:

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Globalization:

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More Urban Dwellers: