Saturday 17 November 2018

Epidemiology


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.


**REMEMBER TO STAY POSITIVE LIKE A PROTON!!**


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