Lesson 1: Introduction to Disease Transmission and Epidemiology

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LESSON 1 Introduction to Disease Transmission and Epidemiology.

TEXT ASSIGNMENT Paragraphs 1-1 through 1-13

LESSON OBJECTIVES After completing this lesson, you should be able to:

1-1. Identify the links in the chain of disease

transmission and select an appropriate means

of breaking each link.

 

1-2. When given examples of common diseases and

the accompanying factors, identify those

elements that illustrate the principles of

"multiple causation" and "iceberg effect."

 

1-3. Select from a list of hypothetical situations

those elements of data that have value from

an epidemiologic viewpoint.

 

1-4. Identify the major uses of the epidemiology in

preventive medicine.

SUGGESTION After completing the assignment, complete the

exercises of this lesson. These exercises will help you

to achieve the lesson objectives.

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