EPIDEMIOLOGY Nonspecific = own body immune

system
- Demographics = age, sex marital status,
WHEEL MODEL
educational status
- Proposed by mausner and kramer in
- Study of occurrence of health conditions
1985
through research, surveys,
- Eliminates the agent as the sole cause of
experimentation and observation
disease but emphasizes the conplex
Distribution of health condition interaction of physical, social
environment, biological and genetics.
- Location - Biological = agents that can cause
- Population disease, pathogens.
- Time - Social = how we interact with the
Determinants environment, direct or indirect contact

- Biologic Causal loop diagram is a snapshot of all

- Political relationship that matter. It is a visual
representation of key variables, and how they are
What is the ultimate goal interconnected.
- Disease prevention NATURAL HISTORY OF DISEASE
- Promotion of health (main) TIMELINE
- Restoration of
- Enhanced management Refers to the progression of a disease process in
an individual over time
Model of disease
Latency period = chronic illnesses
Causation
Subclinical = positive with no visible symptom
MULTIPLE CAUSATION THEORY
Clinical stage = onset of symptoms till time it
Disease comes from multiple factors aggrivate
3 models PATHOLOGIC
- Wheel
- Web
- Ecologic triad, consist of 3 element
agent cause and environment. If its
balance then it will not cause any kind
of illness. Host = susceptible. Agent =
organism that is capable of developing
the disease. Environment = climate,
demographic location, temperature
Agent = biological, chemical, physical,
mechanical, nutritive
Environment = physical, biological,
socio-ecomic
Host = characteristics, resistance, herd
immunity = introducing a specific agent
in the community. Specific = vaccines.