
EPIDEMIOLOGICAL STUDIES: ETHICAL MATTERS
Ethics are the principles of right and wrong that are acceptable to a group of people or an individual. It is a system of standards […]
Ethics are the principles of right and wrong that are acceptable to a group of people or an individual. It is a system of standards […]
Remote sensing is defined as the scientific and computerized technique of gathering images (or data) of the earth’s surface from the space (satellites) and transforming […]
Pathogens (disease-causing agents) cannot produce an infection which can eventually result to a detectable clinical disease with noticeable signs and symptoms except the infectious agent […]
The sequence of development of disease in a defined human population/community is usually characterized by a number of factors and these include: CLICK HERE TO […]
Natural history of disease refers to the progression of a disease process in an individual over time, in the absence of treatment. For example, untreated […]
Level of disease The amount of a particular disease that is usually present in a community is referred to as the baseline or endemic level […]
In the mid-1980s, five major tasks of epidemiology in public health practice were identified. These major tasks of epidemiology in public health practice include: Public […]
Communicable (infectious) diseases are diseases that are contagious. That is, they are infections or diseases that can be transferred or passed on from one person […]
Nosocomial infections are defined as hospital-acquired infections (i.e., infections or diseases acquired by patients few hours after hospitalization). They can also be referred to as […]
A critical premise of epidemiology is that disease and other health events do not occur randomly in a population, but are more likely to occur […]