1. Extra Slides Unit 4: Classifications of Disease Outbreak Unit 5: Framingham Study

2. Classifications of Disease Outbreak Endemic: restricted or peculiar to a locality or region – Malaria is endemic to Africa Epidemic : affecting or tending to affect an atypically large number of individuals within a population, community, or region at the same time; excessively prevalent – AIDS is epidemic Pandemic : occurring over a wide geographic area and affecting an exceptionally high proportion of the population – H1N1 is likely to be pandemic throughout the world this coming flu season – http://medlineplus.gov/

3. Framingham Study Begun in 1948 in Framingham, Mass 5000+ volunteers On 3 rd generation now! Monitored at 2-year intervals Made associations between CVD death and lifestyle behaviours/ non-changeable factors Coined term “risk factors”