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EPIDEMIOLOGY
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
The branch of medical science dealing with the transmission and control of disease
Classified under:
Nouns denoting cognitive processes and contents
Hypernyms ("epidemiology" is a kind of...):
medical specialty; medicine (the branches of medical science that deal with nonsurgical techniques)
Domain member category:
index case (the earliest documented case of a disease that is included in an epidemiological study)
prevalence ((epidemiology) the ratio (for a given time period) of the number of occurrences of a disease or event to the number of units at risk in the population)
Derivation:
epidemiologic; epidemiological (of or relating to epidemiology)
epidemiologist (a medical scientist who studies the transmission and control of epidemic diseases)
Context examples:
Environmental or molecular epidemiology of human breast cancer.
(Breast Cancer Epidemiology, NCI Thesaurus)
It encompasses chemical and physical carcinogenesis, biological carcinogenesis, epidemiology, chemoprevention, and nutrition research.
(Cancer Causation Research, NCI Thesaurus)
DCEG supports two programs: One provides pre- and postdoctoral training in cancer epidemiology and biostatistics, and the other provides postdoctoral interdisciplinary training in cancer genetics and epidemiology.
(Fellowship Programs, DCEG, NCI Thesaurus)
A specialty in biology and medicine focusing on aspects of human parasitology that directly pertains to parasite-induced clinical conditions, including epidemiology, pathogenesis, diagnosis and detection, and prevention and treatment.
(Clinical Parasitology, NCI Thesaurus)
Cancer epidemiology involves the study of how physical surroundings, occupational hazards and personal habits (smoking, diet and lifestyle) may contribute to the development of cancer.
(Cancer Epidemiology, NCI Thesaurus)
International consortium of over 25 groups and multiple investigators pursuing collaborative research on the epidemiology of prostate cancer.
(International Consortium on Prostate Cancer Genetics, NCI Thesaurus)
1 or more networks, composed of health care provider organization researchers who will be capable of conducting studies of cancer epidemiology, treatment, and prevention and control.
(Cancer Research Infrastructure, NCI Thesaurus)
The discipline focusing on microbe-induced clinical conditions, including epidemiology, pathogenesis, diagnosis and detection, and prevention and treatment.
(Clinical Microbiology, NCI Thesaurus)
Environmental epidemiology focuses on exposures that are external to the individual, including physical, chemical, biologic, soci-cultural and lifestyle factors that influence the risk of disease.
(Environmental Epidemiology, NCI Thesaurus)
Another project that began in March in Nepal and Cameroon, Snake-Byte, is looking to understand the epidemiology and impact of snakebite.
(Snakebite resolution set for Health Assembly approval, SciDev.Net)
