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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]
- Applied social sciences [r]: Applied social sciences are those social science disciplines, professions and occupations which seek to use basic social science research and theory to improve the daily life of communities, organizations and persons. [e]
- John Snow (physician) [r]: (1813 – 1858) British physician who is considered to be one of the founders of epidemiology for his work identifying the source of a cholera outbreak in 1854; also one of the pioneers of anaesthesia and medical hygiene. [e]
- Disease [r]: A condition of the body in which one or more of its components fail to operate properly, resulting in disability, pain or other forms of suffering, or behavioral aberrations. [e]
- Evidence-based medicine [r]: The conscientious, explicit and judicious use of current best evidence in making decisions about the care of individual patients. [e]
- Evolution of the human diet [r]: Factors in the development of the human diet in history. [e]
- Florence Nightingale [r]: Add brief definition or description
- Geography [r]: Add brief definition or description
- Human geography [r]: Add brief definition or description
- Immunology [r]: Add brief definition or description
- Infectious disease [r]: Add brief definition or description
- Janet Napolitano [r]: Add brief definition or description
- Logistic regression [r]: Add brief definition or description
- Medical intelligence [r]: Add brief definition or description
- Microbiology [r]: Add brief definition or description
- Overdiagnosis [r]: Add brief definition or description
- Pandemy [r]: Add brief definition or description
- Pathogen [r]: Add brief definition or description
- Pathology [r]: Add brief definition or description
- Preventive medicine [r]: Add brief definition or description
- Relative risk ratio [r]: Add brief definition or description
- Relative risk reduction [r]: Add brief definition or description
- U.S. Department of Health and Human Services [r]: Add brief definition or description
- U.S. intelligence and global health [r]: Add brief definition or description
- World Health Organization [r]: Add brief definition or description