Epidemiology
From Health Encyclopedia
Contents |
[edit]
See for
case control, case control study, cohort, prevalence
[edit]
Broader Terms
[edit]
Narrower Terms
cardiovascular disorder epidemiology, communicable disease transmission, disease /disorder onset, disease /disorder proneness /risk, emerging infectious disease, mental health epidemiology, neoplasm /cancer epidemiology, nervous system disorder epidemiology, nutritional epidemiology, respiratory disorder epidemiology, substance abuse epidemiology
[edit]
Related Terms
comorbidity, disease /disorder etiology, environmental exposure, mass screening
[edit]
Scope Note
study of factors determining and influencing the frequency and distribution of disease, injury, and other health related events and their causes in a defined human population.
[edit]
Facts (generated by robot; please edit if you find it inaccurate)
- What is epidemiology? Epidemiology is the study of how often diseases occur in different groups of people and why.
- Epidemiology is the study of the distribution of health-related states or events in specified populations and the application of this study to the control of health problems (CDC).
- About DMICE The Department of Medical Informatics & Clinical Epidemiology is a department in the Oregon Health and Science University (OHSU) School of Medicine.
- The establishment of a Centre for Epidemiology is based on the idea that there are many interested parties within epidemiology and that the potentials for using the unique sources of information from the Swedish disease and population registers have not yet been fully explored.
- As a "low-technology" science, epidemiology is readily accessible to nonspecialists.
Would you like to discuss or post question about Epidemiology ? Click here !