Era first described places a health concept in the period when it was first written down. Wikipedia notes that basic forms of germ theory date to 1546, yet the idea was "held in disdain in Europe, where Galen's miasma theory remained dominant" for centuries afterward. Browsing by this dimension shows how long some ideas waited before being accepted.
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What does an epidemiologist actually do when a disease outbreak occurs?
An epidemiologist calculates rates of disease and follows set steps to investigate an outbreak in a population.
Epidemiology here is the population side of the field, so the work is about groups of people rather than one patient. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention teaches it as a course in which learners calculate different rates of disease and go through the steps an epidemiologist takes to investigate a disease outbreak. The concepts grouped on this page, such as attack rate, incidence and prevalence, are the measures used to describe how often a disease occurs and how it spreads.
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1. Wikipedia: Epidemiology
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In 1543 he wrote a book De contagione et contagiosis morbis, in which he was the first to promote personal and environmental hygiene to prevent disease.
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