Epidemiology

Epidemiology is the study of epidemics, patterns of health and illness and associated factors at the population level. It is the basis of public health research and helps to inform evidence-based medicine for identifying risk factors for disease and determine how best to treat it.

Recent Epidemiology Questions

Which was a conclusion of Griffith work with Streptococcus pneumonia?

Yesterday, 2:19pm - In Griffith's his experiments, Streptococcus pneumoniae, know...
Can you relate an epidemologic transmission to a geographic transmission?

Feb 03, 1:05am - Epidemiology is the study of health-events, health-characteri...
What is the relationship between toxicology and epidemiology?

Feb 03, 1:04am - Epidemiology is the study of patterns of health and illness a...
What are some environmental factors that can influence gene?

Feb 01, 6:21pm - Gene–environment interaction is the phenotypic effect of inte...
What is the study of the pattern of a disease in a population called?

Jan 27, 4:11am - Epidemiology is the science concerned with the study of the f...
What is the study of the incidence of diseases in a population?

Jan 26, 5:44pm - Epidemiology is the study of factors affecting the health and...
What is the scientific study of the spread of disease?

Jan 23, 10:43pm - Epidemiology is the study of health-event, health-characteris...
What is the difference between an epidemiological study and an experimental study?

Jan 17, 10:14pm - Epidemiological study is a study of factors effecting health ...
What is the explanations accounts for the relative rarity of cancer?

Jan 13, 2:35pm - In statistics and mathematical epidemiology, relative risk (R...
What is the formula for relative risk in AP statistics?

Jan 13, 12:10pm - In statistics and mathematical epidemiology, relative risk (R...
What are 5 subdivisions of biology?

Jan 12, 8:53pm - There are many disciplines of biology including aerobiology, ...
What does phosphouric acid do to your bones?

Jan 11, 12:20am - Phosphoric acid, used in many soft drinks (primarily cola), h...
What is the Study of Factors determining the Frequency of Health Related Conditions?

Jan 09 2012, 2:35pm - Epidemiology is the study of factors determining the frequenc...
Is styrofoam a carcinogen?

Jan 08 2012, 11:33am - Chemistry answer: adjective | causing or tending to cause can...
What are transmission based precautions?

Dec 13 2011, 10:38am - “Transmission-Based Precautions”, also known as additional in...
Who was the first scientist who researched how diseases effected living things?

Dec 05 2011, 6:45pm - The Greek physician Hippocrates has been called the father of...
What is Epidemiological?

Nov 03 2011, 9:08am - Epidemiology is the study of factors affecting the health and...
What are the different kinds of biology?

Oct 27 2011, 8:08pm - There are many branches of biology, some include: Aerobiology...
What Is descriptive epidemiology?

Oct 27 2011, 3:00pm - Descriptive epidemiology evaluates and catalogs all the circu...
What is the difference between longitunal and cross sectional studies?

Oct 26 2011, 2:19pm - A cross-sectional study is the simplest variety of descriptiv...