Introduction to Epidemiology 6th Edition by Ray M Merrill

Exercise 4

List four types of epidemiologic information useful for influencing public health policy and planning and individual health decisions.

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Epidemiology can be defined as study of determination of states of health, events in the population of humans, its distribution as well as the application of such studies in control as well as prevention of some health related consequences.

Investigation of epidemiology includes descriptive as well as analytical methods, which draws techniques on statistical for the data that is descriptive as well as evaluation of hypotheses, principles of biology as well as casual theory.

The descriptive epidemiology includes the characterization as well as description of states related to health and events. The number of death or cases is very meaningful to the population size typically.