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What Is Epidemiology?
Epidemiology and the study of public health is an important area in medicine, because these researchers are taking note to figure out how disease is distributed through the population and to determine how to prevent widespread epidemics. Epidemiology is important to keeping you healthy. To get a better idea of what epidemiologists do, different specialties in the field of epidemiology these videos are sure to answer any questions that you may have.

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Epidemiology Basics 
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  2. What is epidemiology? 
  3. What is the basic premise of epidemiology? 
  4. What are the two branches of epidemiology? 
  5. What are the most common uses of epidemiology? 
  6. What are the main components of epidemiology? 
  7. Why is epidemiology considered an interdisciplinary field? 
  8. What are the scientific foundations of epidemiology? 
  9. What are the most common methods epidemiologists use to study disease? 
  10. How does epidemiology approach the study of diseases within a population? 
  11. What are the most common variables used to evaluate my community's health? 
  12. Do clinical descriptions of disease differ from epidemiological descriptions of disease? 
  13. Which sources of data do epidemiologists draw upon? 
Epidemiology Definitions 
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  2. What is 'population medicine'? 
  3. What do epidemiologists mean by the term 'determinants'? 
  4. What do epidemiologists mean by the term 'distribution'? 
  5. What do epidemiologists mean by the term 'population'? 
  6. What do epidemiologists mean by the term 'population at risk'? 
  7. What do epidemiologists mean by the term 'morbidity'? 
  8. What do epidemiologists mean by the term 'mortality'? 
  9. What is 'biostatistics'? 
  10. What does 'etiology' mean? 
  11. What's the difference between 'incidence' and 'prevalence'? 
  12. What's the difference between a 'disease rate' and 'disease proportion'? 

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Epidemiological Specialties 
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  2. What is 'risk factor epidemiology'? 
  3. What is 'clinical epidemiology'? 
  4. What is 'molecular epidemiology'? 
  5. What is infectious diseases epidemiology? 
  6. What is 'genetic epidemiology'? 
  7. How is epidemiology applied to global health problems? 
  8. What is 'psychiatric epidemiology'? 
  9. What is 'behavioral epidemiology'? 
  10. What is 'social epidemiology'? 

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