Epidemiology

If not diagnosed and treated promptly with fluids, death will be inevitable. . Epidemiology Cholera is a major cause of epidemic diarrhea throughout the developing world. There has been an ongoing global pandemic in Asia, Africa and Latin America for the last four decades. In 2011, a total of 58 countries reported a cumulative total of 589,854 cases including 7,816 deaths (case fatality rate of 1.3%) to the World Health Organization (WHO). There was an 85% increase in number of cholera cases as…

Epidemiology is used to search for factors and causes that impact the incidents of health-related events such as diseases, syndromes, and injuries. Epidemiology tries to provide the answers on why and how by comparing groups with different rates of disease existence and with differences in demographic characteristics, genetic and so-called potential risk factors. Epidemiologic findings provide satisfactory evidence that helps direct effective public health control and prevention measures. Public…

Cambodia: Epidemiology and Public Health Description and Health Profile Cambodia is a Southeast Asian country home to 14.5 million people, bordered by Thailand, Laos and Vietnam.1 After the communist Pol Pot regime and era of the Khmer Rouge came to an end in the 1970’s, the country has been slowly recovering from the Cambodian genocide and its ramifications.1 The last twenty years have seen relative stability in Cambodia, which has translated into significant improvements in population…

Introduction According to the Centers for Disease Control (CDC) (2012), disaster epidemiology refers to the use of epidemiology for assessing the short and long term health effects of disaster in order to predict consequences for future disasters. However, it is futile to understand the health effects of disasters outside a concise definition of what actually constitutes natural disasters. To this effect, Watson, Gayer, & Connolly (2007) define natural disasters as catastrophic events of…

versa. Especially, as globalization continues to causes foreign countries to interact frequently sharing ideas, beliefs, and diseases. Epidemiology would benefit from anthropological methods because it creates a comprehensive view of a disease, increases disease tracking accuracy, and develops culturally sustainable solutions.…

Principal uses of epidemiology: o Historical use- study of historical cases within a population to determine patterns of mortality and morbidity. [Diseases shape history; speculation of the plague leading to the fall of the Roman Empire] (http://duncansepidemiology.tripod.com/id8.html) o Community health use- study and diagnosis of health within certain communities to identify problem areas that need special treatment. [Chronic pain was found in different levels within a community based on…

Slide 1(person) This graphic shows the prevalence of Tularemia disease in the United States by age and sex between 2001 and 2015. Descriptive epidemiology focuses on three main components, such as: the person, the place and the time. This particular slide present information on the person component. The number of cases of Tularemia disease is represented by the Y-axis in tens and the age of male and female who are infected by Tularemia disease is represented by the X-axis by 5-year age…

component in this is epidemiology. What surprised me most is how critical epidemiology is to public health nursing. Epidemiology is generally concerned with quantifying things like injuries, disability, morbidity, and mortality. For me, these numbers never showed importance. They were just another static in a reading to brush over. Nursing was always about putting a face to that static and working with that person’s specific concerns. Yet, this completely discredits epidemiology. Through this…

“Managerial epidemiology is the study of the application of epidemiologic concepts and principles to the practice of management. This first part focuses primarily on descriptive epidemiology, with selected applications to two critically important tasks of healthcare managers: planning and quality control” (Fleming, S. 2008). Throughout the history, the focus of the healthcare, including the education and delivery, was mostly reactive, fighting the disease once it occurs. Healthcare professionals…

symptoms of Pneumonia can vary from mild to severe where most healthy people recover from symptoms in one to three weeks, however, depending on the severity of pneumonia, it can be life threatening. [1] This investigation is going to discuss the epidemiology and the frequency of the clinical presentations of the disease within Australia as well as investigate the financial burden the disease has on the Australian government. The aetiology and pathophysiology will be discussed and will identify…