The study of how disease and other health outcomes are distributed across populations and what determines that distribution, the population level practice this atlas carries as distinct from medicine's own clinical study of disease in the individual patient. Epidemiology supplies public health with its central tools: incidence, prevalence, outbreak investigation and the tracing of causes back to exposures.
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Central QuestionWho is affected by a given health outcome, where, and why, traced back to the exposures and conditions that explain the pattern. 1 Key DebateAssociation is not causation, and epidemiology's own history is full of disputes over whether an observed correlation reflects a real causal exposure or a confounding factor, resolved case by case through further study rather than by the discipline's own rules alone. 1 Epidemiology
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Both are counted among public health's traditional core disciplines; biostatistics supplies the quantitative methods epidemiology's population measures depend on.
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Carlos Finlay, Figures Carlos Finlay proposed in 1881 that yellow fever was transmitted by mosquitoes, foundational disease-transmission epidemiology.
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This atlas's own DataBrief names surveillance, outbreak investigation and disease frequency measures as the Epidemiology branch's own population practice.
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Encyclopedia Britannica, Inc.Epidemiology
Epidemiology is a branch of medical science that uses statistics to study the distribution of disease in human populations and the factors determining that distribution.
- Includes: Epidemiological Transition
- Includes: Incidence
- Includes: Basic Reproduction Number
- Includes: Herd Immunity
- Includes: Prevalence
- Includes: Thomas McKeown
- Includes: William Farr
View the Source UCLA Fielding School of Public Health, John Snow Site
UCLA Fielding School of Public Health, Department of Epidemiology- Includes: John Snow
- Includes: Broad Street Pump Investigation
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US National Institutes of HealthIncludes: Framingham Heart Study FoundingView the Source United States Centers for Disease Control and Prevention Official Site
US Centers for Disease Control and PreventionIncludes: Contact TracingView the Source ECDC Website
European Centre for Disease Prevention and ControlAssociated With: European Centre for Disease Prevention and Control, About ECDC, infectious disease protectionView the Source Africa CDC Website
Africa Centres for Disease Control and PreventionAssociated With: Africa Centres for Disease Control and Prevention, About Us, surveillance platformsView the Source Wikipedia: Biostatistics
WikipediaAssociated With: Biostatistics, Applications, Public health sectionView the Source Wikipedia: Richard Doll
WikipediaIncludes: Richard Doll, Lead sectionQuote, Includes: Richard Doll, Lead section
who became an epidemiologist in the mid-20th century
Wikipedia: Austin Bradford Hill
WikipediaIncludes: Austin Bradford Hill, Lead sectionQuote, Includes: Austin Bradford Hill, Lead section
was an English epidemiologist
Wikipedia: Wade Hampton Frost
WikipediaIncludes: Wade Hampton Frost, Lead sectionQuote, Includes: Wade Hampton Frost, Lead section
was an American epidemiologist
Wikipedia: Joseph Goldberger
WikipediaIncludes: Joseph Goldberger, Lead sectionQuote, Includes: Joseph Goldberger, Lead section
was an American physician and epidemiologist
Wikipedia: Carlos Finlay
WikipediaIncludes: Carlos Finlay, Lead sectionQuote, Includes: Carlos Finlay, Lead section
was a Cuban epidemiologist
Wikipedia: William Foege
WikipediaIncludes: William Foege, Lead sectionQuote, Includes: William Foege, Lead section
was an American physician and epidemiologist
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