Epidemiology
Epidemiology is the study of
the distribution and determinate of health relegated sates and or events in a
specified populations and the application of this study to the control of
health problems.
The study of how disease is distributed
in a population and the factors that influence or determine that distribution.
such as a triad of host, pathogen and environment. Epidemiology studies anything that is heath
related, infectious disease and chronic disease.
Epidemiology is used in the population
and community health assessment, personal decision making and complete clinical
practice as well as evaluating interventions and the search of a cause such as
the exposure and relationship to disease during a outbreak investigation.
The information that is
needed during a Epidemiology investigation can be a case definition, person,
place, time and population not the individual case.
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