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[{"left":"What is Epidemiology?","right":"Epidemiology is the study of health and disease in human populations\n\n-Epidemiologists are the those who study it \n\n.They study in particular cumulative diseases, cardiovascular disease, cancer, mental illness, accidents, and so much more"},{"left":"Epidemiologists count?","right":"-They count the number of times the condition or disease occurs in relation to the total number of people, which is called prevalence"},{"left":"\"Disease Detectives\"","right":"Epidemiologist investigates disease outbreaks\n\n-They determine where the outbreak came from and how to prevent it"},{"left":"Surveillance","right":"Epidemiologist practice surveillance\n\n-They are searching for undocumented disease -Surveillance helps keep track of a number of public health concerns such as abuse, violence, STDs, and communicable disease outbreak"},{"left":"Monitoring","right":"-Monitoring uses surveillance data to determine changes in the number of affected or affected people\n-It tells us if there's more or less of a particular disease or condition\n\nThese measurements are used to create a picture of how a disease is affecting society"},{"left":"Incidents","right":"-The number of new cases of disease or event in a specific population"},{"left":"Morbidity","right":"-The number of cases of a specific disease in a specific period of time per unit of population, usually described as a number per 1000"},{"left":"Mortality","right":"-A measure of given death in a population\n\n\\*\\*Infant mortality rate in America is 6.1 deaths per 1000 live births\\*\\*"},{"left":"What is Risk","right":"-A chance that someone may get infected \n-Relative risk is related to specific factor"},{"left":"Summary","right":"Key terms to know are Epidemiology, Prevalence, Surveillance, Monitoring, Incidents, Morbidity, Mortality, Risk, and Relative Risk"}]
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