Learning Kit on introduction to Applied Epidemiology

Applied Epidemiology

Applied Epidemiology

by Sabina Yesmin -
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1.  the difference between epidemiology of 19th century  and 21st century are given below:

  • Diseases and epidemics of the 19th century included long-standing epidemic threats such as smallpox, typhus, yellow fever, and scarlet fever. In addition, cholera emerged as an epidemic threat and spread worldwide in six pandemics in the nineteenth century.
  • epidemiology in the 21st century: the impotence of context, problem-based epidemiology, appropriate technology, epidemiology as a population science.
2.  epidemiology of behavior:
Behavioral epidemiology is the branch of epidemiology that is related with the psychology. In this we can study about the lifestyle and behaviors of people and how they affect their health conditions. Behavioral disease conditions and disease re-occurrence depends on the behavior is the range of actions and mannerisms made by individuals in conjunction with themselves or their environment, which includes the other systems or organisms around as well as physical environment.

 It is the response of the system or organism to various stimuli or inputs, whether internal or external, conscious or subconscious, overt or covert, and voluntary or involuntary.