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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
The Collaborative International Dictionary
epidemiology \ep`i*de`mi*ol"o*gy\, n. [Epidemy + -logy.] (Med.) That branch of medicine which studies the incidence and distribution of disease in a population, and uses such information to find the causes, modes of transmission, and methods for control of disease.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Wiktionary
n. 1 (context sciences English) The branch of a science dealing with the spread and control of diseases, viruses, concepts etc. throughout populations or systems. 2 (context sciences English) The epidemiological body of knowledge about a particular thing.
WordNet
n. the branch of medical science dealing with the transmission and control of disease
Wikipedia
Epidemiology is the study and analysis of the patterns, causes, and effects of health and disease conditions in defined populations. It is the cornerstone of public health, and shapes policy decisions and evidence-based practice by identifying risk factors for disease and targets for preventive healthcare. Epidemiologists help with study design, collection, and statistical analysis of data, amend interpretation and dissemination of results (including peer review and occasional systematic review). Epidemiology has helped develop methodology used in clinical research, public health studies, and, to a lesser extent, basic research in the biological sciences.
Major areas of epidemiological study include disease etiology, transmission, outbreak investigation, disease surveillance, forensic epidemiology and screening, biomonitoring, and comparisons of treatment effects such as in clinical trials. Epidemiologists rely on other scientific disciplines like biology to better understand disease processes, statistics to make efficient use of the data and draw appropriate conclusions, social sciences to better understand proximate and distal causes, and engineering for exposure assessment.
Epidemiology is a bi-monthly, peer-reviewed journal for epidemiologic research, published by Lippincott Williams & Wilkins.
The journal publishes original research from all fields of epidemiology, as well as review articles, meta-analyses, novel hypotheses, descriptions and applications of new methods and discussions of research theory and public health policy. It is the official journal of the International Society for Environmental Epidemiology (ISEE). In 2011, Epidemiology had an impact factor of 5.6, ranking 4th among 157 journals in the field of public, environmental and occupational health.
Epidemiology was founded by Ken Rothman in 1990. Allen Wilcox has been Editor-in-Chief since 2001. Its editorial offices are in Durham, North Carolina.
"Epidemiology" is the sixth episode of the second season of the American comedy television series Community, and the 31st episode of the series overall. It originally premiered in the United States on NBC on October 28, 2010 as a special Halloween-themed episode. In the episode, the Dean throws a Halloween themed party on campus. During the party, a few of the partygoers become sick from eating an unknown substance, that the Dean mistook for taco meat, bought in an army surplus store. The sickness causes affected to turn into a state violent and zombie-like proportions that can be passed on through bites. As the study group try to escape, the Dean (under orders from the army) locks the doors, trapping them inside with the infected.
The episode was written by Karey Dornetto and directed by Anthony Hemingway, and also features the voice of George Takei. The episode's plot is a parody of various zombie and horror movies, with the infected students mimicking stereotypical zombies and various tropes of the genre being mocked. The episode received overwhelmingly positive reviews and was watched by 5.6 million viewers on its original airing.
Epidemiology is the study of the distribution and patterns of health-events, health-characteristics and their causes or influences in defined populations.
Epidemiology may also refer to:
- Epidemiology (journal)
- Epidemiology (Community), Community TV episode
Usage examples of "epidemiology".
Yuri Lemingov was transferred out of the epidemiology section of our institute and assigned to a lengthy study of hospital-acquired infection in a treatment facility in St.
Thus, in her first three issues, the Oracular Vulva delivered disquisitions on the erotic art of the Japanese painter Hiroshi Yamamoto, the epidemiology of syphilis, and the sex life of St.
Jake Weiss, chief of the epidemiology department, stood in the doorway.
On her way to the hospital for an early epidemiology departmental conference, she checked out the neighborhood, but Ray was still a no-show.
American Journal of Epidemiology was able to show that by using the exact same methodology, smoking saves 277,621 lives each year.
These trained doctors, nurses, and paramedical technicians, and engaged in continuous research on each planet into local diseases, local materia medica, parasitology, epidemiology, toxicology, and a variety of other topics in public health.
In particular, epidemiology, the science of drawing inferences about human diseases by comparing groups of people (often by retrospective historical studies), has for a long time successfully employed formalized procedures for dealing with problems similar to those facing historians of human societies.
They are already armed with much knowledge: of the scientific method, the germ theory, statistics, epidemiology and even the nature of the enemies they are fighting.
Before, the epidemiology was that of vertical transmission, as in Huntington's Chorea.
Epidemiology was the medical profession's version of accounting, and as that dull profession was vital to running a business, so the study of diseases and how they spread was actually the mother of modern medicine, when in the 1830s a French physician had determined that people who became ill died or recovered at the same rate whether they were treated or not.