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Population Characteristics > Health > Public Health > Epidemiology
Environment and Public Health > Public Health > Epidemiology
Health Occupations > Medicine > Public Health > Epidemiology

Preferred term

Epidemiology  

Type

  • Topical Descriptor

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Entry terms

  • Epidemiologies, Social
  • Epidemiology, Social
  • Social Epidemiologies
  • Social Epidemiology

Note

  • specialty only; prefer /‌epidemiol with diseases; do not confuse with TOPOGRAPHY, MEDICAL: epidemiology emphasizes disease outbreaks & disease-related conditions, topography emphasizes geography-related events

Scope note

  • Field 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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http://www.yso.fi/onto/mesh/D004813

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