epidemiologist

Examples of epidemiologist in the following topics:

• The Science of Epidemiology

  • Epidemiologists rely on other scientific disciplines like biology to better understand disease processes, statistics to make efficient use of the data and draw appropriate conclusions, social sciences to better understand proximate and distal causes, and engineering for exposure assessment.
  • Epidemiologists employ a range of study designs from the observational to experimental.
  • In observational studies, nature is allowed to "take its course", as epidemiologists observe from the sidelines.
  • Controversially, in experimental studies, the epidemiologist is the one in control of all of the factors relating to the particular case study.
  • A common theme in much of the epidemiological literature is that "correlation does not imply causation. " For epidemiologists, the key is in the term inference.

• Analytical Epidemiology

  • Epidemiologists help with study design, collection and statistical analysis of data, and interpretation and dissemination of results (including peer review and occasional systematic review).
  • Epidemiologists employ a range of study designs from observational to experimental and generally categorized as descriptive, analytic (aiming to further examine known associations or hypothesized relationships), and experimental (a term often equated with clinical or community trials of treatments and other interventions).
  • Using the case control method, the epidemiologist can look for factors that might have preceded the disease.

• Experimental Epidemiology

  • Epidemiologists help with study design, collection and statistical analysis of data, and interpretation and dissemination of results (including peer review and occasional systematic review).
  • Epidemiologists employ a range of study designs from the observational to experimental and they are generally categorized as descriptive, analytic (aiming to further examine known associations or hypothesized relationships), and experimental (a term often equated with clinical or community trials of treatments and other interventions).
  • In observational studies, nature is allowed to "take its course", as epidemiologists observe from the sidelines.
  • Controversially, in experimental studies, the epidemiologist is the one in control of all of the factors entering a certain case study.
  • Modern epidemiologists use informatics as a tool.

• Descriptive Epidemiology

  • For epidemiologists, data on who is most likely to be injured in car crashes can be just as valuable as a topic of inquiry as data on what part of the population is most at risk for developing complications from the flu.
  • Analytical epidemiologists use data gathered by descriptive epidemiology experts to look for patterns suggesting causation.
  • Frequency evaluates the rate of occurrence, and pattern helps analytical epidemiologists suggest risk factors.

• Social Epidemiology and Health

  • Social epidemiologists can help understand the original causes of the cancer cluster by collecting information about the affected people while working with other medical professionals.
  • Epidemiologists help with study design, collection and statistical analysis of data, and interpretation and dissemination of results (including peer review and occasional systematic review).
  • Epidemiologists rely on other scientific disciplines like biology to better understand disease processes, statistics to make efficient use of the data and draw appropriate conclusions, social sciences to better understand proximate and distal causes, and engineering for exposure assessment.
  • However, these fields often use health and disease in order to explain specifically social phenomenon (such as the growth of lay health advocacy movements), while social epidemiologists generally use social concepts in order to explain patterns of health in the population.

• History of Epidemiology

  • Epidemiologists help with study design, collection and statistical analysis of data, and interpretation and dissemination of results.
  • The Greek physician Hippocrates is known as the father of medicine, and was the first epidemiologist.
  • Epidemiologists also study the interaction of diseases in a population, a condition known as a syndemic.

• Occurrence of a Disease

• Is Being Too Clean a Bad Thing?

  • The hygiene hypothesis has been extensively investigated by immunologists and epidemiologists and has become an important theoretical framework for the study of allergic disorders.

• Current Epidemics

  • Epidemiologists often consider the term outbreak to be synonymous to epidemic, but the general public typically perceives outbreaks to be more local and less serious than epidemics.

• Disease Reservoirs and Epidemics

  • Epidemiologists often consider the term outbreak to be synonymous to epidemic, but the general public typically perceives outbreaks to be more local and less serious than epidemics.