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Introduction to Epidemiology - Coggle Diagram
Introduction to Epidemiology
Uses
Assessing the community's health
Making individual decisions
Completing the clinical picture
Searching for causes
Core Epidemiologic Functions
Public health surveillance,
Field investigation
Analytic studies
Conduct
Design
Analysis
Interpretation
Evaluation
Effectiveness
Effciency
Linkages
Policy development
Epidemiologic Approach
What does an Epidemiologist do?
Counts
Divides
Compares
Descriptive Epidemiology
Time
Secular (long-term) trends
Seasonality
Day of week and time of day
Epidemic period
Place
Person
Age
Sex
Ethnic and racial groups
Socioeconomic status
5 W's
What
Who
Where
When
Why/How
Analytic Epidemiology
Experimental
Observational
Cohort study
Case-control study
Cross-sectional study
Concepts of Disease Occurrence
Causation
Agent
Host
Environment
Component causes and causal pies
Sufficient Cause
Necessary cause
Definition of Epidemiology
Epi (on or upon)
Demos (people)
Logos (study)
Distribution
Frequency
Pattern
Chain of infection
Reservoir
Human, animal, & environmental
Portal of exit
Mode of transmission
Direct & indirect
Portal of entry
Susceptible host
Level of disease
Endemic
Sporadic
Hyperendemic
Epidemic
Outbreak
Cluster
Pandemic