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Michael Heinrich ACP
About Michael Heinrich
Michael currently resides in Oshawa Ontario and has over 16 years of paramedic experience both as an Advanced and Primary Care Paramedic. Michael has worked throughout Canada in both rural and urban settings, delivering frontline pre-hospital care, as well as aero-medical transport. He is a recent recipient of the Tema Conter Memorial Trust Award for his research on Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder among emergency service employees, and currently is licensed in British Columbia, Alberta, Ontario, and Prince Edward Island. Recently Michael has shifted focus towards a different capacity, and is currently completing his second year towards a Bachelor Degree in Allied Health Science at the University of Ontario and Institute of Technology.
Michael currently resides in Oshawa Ontario and has over 16 years of paramedic experience both as an Advanced and Primary Care Paramedic. Michael has worked throughout Canada in both rural and urban settings, delivering frontline pre-hospital care, as well as aero-medical transport. He is a recent recipient of the Tema Conter Memorial Trust Award for his research on Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder among emergency service employees, and currently is licensed in British Columbia, Alberta, Ontario, and Prince Edward Island. Recently Michael has shifted focus towards a different capacity, and is currently completing his second year towards a Bachelor Degree in Allied Health Science at the University of Ontario and Institute of Technology.
So what is epidemiology anyways?
Figure 3 - Epidemiology Triangle
Epidemiology is the study of characteristics, behaviours, and patterns that may make certain persons more susceptable to disease than others (Epidemiology Basics, 2013). It is also studies the occurrence, frequency, and distribution of diseases in a given population, and tries to understand the possible causes of disease in order to provide clues as to potential treatments through observation, surveillance, or statiscal analysis (Merrill, 2013). Once an outbreak of a disease or health related issue has been identified, classified and it's nature risk and frequency of infection has been established, epidemiology provides a means to gauge the efficacy of implemented treatment programs, and allows us to institute risk-detection and prevention strategies towards future health concerns (Merrill, 2013). Lastly. epidemiology can be considered the foundation of public health, because it provides information about health status trends, and the social condition of a community. The study of epidemiology is well rooted within history, and although the persons and events discussed in this website do not represent epidemiology in it's entirety, that which has been chosen, has been in effort to highlight significance in the development of epidemiology as a science, as well as provide opportunity for discussion regarding the importance of the differing sub-gorups of this science.
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Michael
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Hope you enjoy
Michael
