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  • Epidemiology

Epidemiology(Topical Term)

Preferred form: Epidemiology
Used for/see from:
  • Social Epidemiology
  • n: Epidemiologies, Social
  • n: Epidemiology, Social
  • n: Social Epidemiologies
  • Disease epidemiology

specialty only; prefer /‌epidemiol with diseases; do not confuse with TOPOGRAPHY, MEDICAL: epidemiology emphasizes disease outbreaks & disease-related conditions, topography emphasizes geography-related events

Field concerned with the determination of causes, incidence, and characteristic behavior of disease outbreaks affecting human populations. It includes the interrelationships of host, agent, and environment as related to the distribution and control of disease.

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