Epidemiology Foundational Terms
Across
- 1. A group of people living in a community or geographic region or sharing a common characteristic.
- 4. What society does collectively to assure the conditions in which people can be healthy.
- 5. A factor or cause that influences the occurrence of disease or another health-related event.
- 8. The frequency and pattern of health events within a group.
- 9. The number of health events in relation to the size of the group being studied.
- 10. A result of a medical condition that directly affects the length or quality of a person’s life.
Down
- 2. The measurement of health outcomes within a defined group of people.
- 3. The occurrence of health-related events according to time, place, and person.
- 6. An occurrence of illness or another health event in a community at a level clearly greater than normally expected.
- 7. The study of the distribution and determinants of health-related states in specified groups and the application of that study to control health problems.