Epidemiology refers to the scientific study of a disease, the ways the disease spreads and the determinants causes or risk factors of the disease in a given population, which may be a school. Neighborhood, school or a city. The main objectives of epidemiology is to carry out public surveillance, field investigation, analytic studies, evaluation and[…]
Epidemiology is a long-existing scientific approach that gained prominence in the Second World War to understand disease occurrence. Its conception was primarily required to abolish the supernatural viewpoint peddled by various scholars in conducting diagnosis and treatment. Recognizable contributors include John Raunt, whose publication elaborate on mortality data and its quantification in terms of disease[…]