Assignment:
Question 1. Various theories of disease causation that date back from ancient times to the present has lead to current disease prevention and health promotion strategies. Scientific and medical breakthroughs have also affected the current understanding of disease causation and disease prevention measures.
Describe the major scientific breakthroughs. In your description, discuss the affect that these breakthroughs have had on the evolution of disease causation theories. Include the effect(s) of these breakthroughs on the basic mechanisms of disease causation and health promotion measures used throughout history and today. These web sites were given as a reference:
https://www.ph.ucla.edu/epi/snow/firstdiscoveredcholera.html
https://www.dhss.mo.gov/EPI/DiseaseProcess.html
Question 2. Various predisposing factors, such as age, sex, the environment, lifestyle, and heredity can cause one person (or population) to be more susceptible to a particular disease than another person (or population).
Consider the chain of infection, modes of disease transmission, and host susceptibility to disease. Describe the effects that a particular disease has on aging, the environment, lifestyle, and heredity has on the susceptibility to common chronic diseases. In your description, include an explanation detailing why some people (or populations) are more susceptible to certain diseases than other people (or populations).
Your answer must be typed, double-spaced, Times New Roman font (size 12), one-inch margins on all sides, APA format.