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A list of Citizendium articles, and planned articles, about Epidemiology.
See also changes related to Epidemiology, or pages that link to Epidemiology or to this page or whose text contains "Epidemiology".

Parent topics

  • Biology [r]: The science of life — of complex, self-organizing, information-processing systems living in the past, present or future. [e]
  • Epidemy [r]: Add brief definition or description
  • Medicine [r]: The study of health and disease of the human body. [e]
  • Health [r]: The default state of an organism under optimal conditions, a state characterized by the absence of disease and by the slowest natural rate of senescing. [e]
  • Population [r]: Collection of inter-breeding organisms of a particular species, in a specifically defined area considered as a whole. [e]
  • Society [r]: Please do not use this term in your topic list, because there is no single article for it. Please substitute a more precise term. See Society (disambiguation) for a list of available, more precise, topics. Please add a new usage if needed.
  • Demography [r]: The study of the change in the size, density, distribution and composition of human populations over time. [e]
  • Health [r]: The default state of an organism under optimal conditions, a state characterized by the absence of disease and by the slowest natural rate of senescing. [e]

Subtopics

  • Epidemic [r]: Sudden increase in the incidence of a disease [e]
  • Pandemic [r]: Add brief definition or description
  • Vector (epidemiology) [r]: The means by which a cause of morbidity or mortality propagates, such as insects, contaminated water, etc. [e]
  • Etiology [r]: Study of causation, or origination, usually applied in medicine to the causes of disease. [e]
  • Germ theory of disease [r]: A theory that proposes that microorganisms are the cause of many diseases. [e]
  • Case-control study [r]: Research into the risk factors of people with a disease, compared with those without a disease. [e]
  • Cross-sectional study [r]: Studies in which the presence or absence of disease or other health-related variables are determined in each member of the study population or in a representative sample at one particular time. This contrasts with longitudinal studies which are followed over a period of time. [e]
  • Centers for Disease Control [r]: A major center of epidemiologic research and clinical support in epidemics, considered a world resource although part of the United States Public Health Service, located in Atlanta, Georgia, USA [e]
  • Absolute risk reduction [r]: Decrease in risk of a given activity or treatment in relation to a control activity or treatment. [e]
  • Morbidity [r]: The rate of illness with a common cause, in a specified population, over a specified period of time [e]
  • Prevalence [r]: The total number of cases of a given disease in a specified population at a designated time. It is differentiated from incidence, which refers to the number of new cases in the population at a given time. [e]

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