Definitions for Epidemiology
ˌɛp ɪˌdi miˈɒl ə dʒi, -ˌdɛm i-epi·demi·ol·o·gy

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1. epidemiologynoun

   the branch of medical science dealing with the transmission and control of disease

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1. epidemiologynoun

   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.

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1. epidemiologynoun

   The branch of a science dealing with the spread and control of diseases, computer viruses, concepts etc. throughout populations or systems.

2. epidemiologynoun

   The epidemiological body of knowledge about a particular thing.

3. Etymology: From epidemia + οlogy, from επιδημία + λόγος, from επί (upon) and δήμος (people) (disease upon people and theory). See also epidemic.

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1. Epidemiology

   Epidemiology is the study and analysis of the distribution (who, when, and where), patterns and determinants of health and disease conditions in a defined population. It is a 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 causation, transmission, outbreak investigation, disease surveillance, environmental epidemiology, forensic epidemiology, occupational epidemiology, 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, literally meaning "the study of what is upon the people", is derived from Greek epi 'upon, among', demos 'people, district', and logos 'study, word, discourse', suggesting that it applies only to human populations. However, the term is widely used in studies of zoological populations (veterinary epidemiology), although the term "epizoology" is available, and it has also been applied to studies of plant populations (botanical or plant disease epidemiology).The distinction between "epidemic" and "endemic" was first drawn by Hippocrates, to distinguish between diseases that are "visited upon" a population (epidemic) from those that "reside within" a population (endemic). The term "epidemiology" appears to have first been used to describe the study of epidemics in 1802 by the Spanish physician Villalba in Epidemiología Española. Epidemiologists also study the interaction of diseases in a population, a condition known as a syndemic. The term epidemiology is now widely applied to cover the description and causation of not only epidemic, infectious disease, but of disease in general, including related conditions. Some examples of topics examined through epidemiology include as high blood pressure, mental illness and obesity. Therefore, this epidemiology is based upon how the pattern of the disease causes change in the function of human beings.

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1. epidemiology

   Epidemiology is the branch of medicine that deals with the incidence, distribution, and possible control of diseases and other factors relating to health. It involves the statistical analysis of data to understand how diseases spread within populations, identify causes, develop methods for prevention, and guide policy and decision making in public health.

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1. Epidemiologynoun

   that branch of science which treats of epidemics

2. Etymology: [Epidemy + -logy.]

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1. Epidemiology

   Epidemiology is the study of the patterns, causes, and effects of health and disease conditions in defined populations. It is the cornerstone of public health, and informs policy decisions and evidence-based medicine by identifying risk factors for disease and targets for preventive medicine. Epidemiologists help with study design, collection and statistical analysis of data, and interpretation and dissemination of results. 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, outbreak investigation, disease surveillance 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.

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1. Epidemiology

   Field of medicine 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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   The numerical value of Epidemiology in Chaldean Numerology is: 4

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   The numerical value of Epidemiology in Pythagorean Numerology is: 9

Examples of Epidemiology in a Sentence

1. Alex Corbishley:

   Wastewater epidemiology has been part of monitoring of polio infection across the world, so it's not completely new, but it's never really been applied to an outbreak in this way.

2. Benjamin Chapman:

   While it's possible that the virus gets deposited [ on packaging ] we have no indication from epidemiology or the literature that this is a risk factor for Covid-19 or other respiratory illnesses, even with the millions of cases of influenza each year, packaging isn't something we talk about.

3. Mike Stratton:

   As we refined the sophistication of the approach and the mutation classification, the algorithms and the sequencing, it has become clear that this was a big challenge that would require coordinated investment and organisation, we have to collect five to ten thousand tumour samples and normal blood, we have to quality-control the DNA sequencing and do the data management and statistics -- it's a combination of large-scale epidemiology and large-scale genomics that haven't been married together in this way before.

4. Jerome Powell:

   We are not experts on epidemiology, the spread of pandemics or anything like that, we talk to experts, and the main answer they give you is things are highly uncertain.

5. United States:

   I think to the public overall, there really is no clear risk at this point, this is an evolving situation that we're looking to understand better -- why these clusters that have been reported as well in the UK and in Portugal and Spain are happening, and to better understand the epidemiology.

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References

1. ^ Princeton's WordNet
   http://wordnetweb.princeton.edu/perl/webwn?s=Epidemiology
2. ^ GCIDE
   https://gcide.gnu.org.ua/?q=Epidemiology
3. ^ Wiktionary
   https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/Epidemiology
4. ^ Wikipedia
   https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Epidemiology
5. ^ ChatGPT
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6. ^ Webster Dictionary
   https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/Epidemiology
7. ^ Wikidata
   https://www.wikidata.org/w/index.php?search=Epidemiology