Concept information
Preferred term
Epidemiology
Type
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mesh:Descriptor
Definition
- Field concerned with the determination of causes, incidence, and characteristic behavior of disease outbreaks affecting human populations. It includes the interrelationships of host, agent, and environment as related to the distribution and control of disease. Branch of epidemiology primarily concerned with the role of social factors-such as socioeconomic class, gender, or ethnicity on patterns of health.
Broader concept
Narrower concepts
Allowable Qualifier(s)
- classification (Qualifier)
- economics (Qualifier)
- education (Qualifier)
- ethics (Qualifier)
- history (Qualifier)
- instrumentation (Qualifier)
- legislation & jurisprudence (Qualifier)
- organization & administration (Qualifier)
- standards (Qualifier)
- statistics & numerical data (Qualifier)
- trends (Qualifier)
In other languages
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French
URI
http://data.loterre.fr/ark:/67375/JVR-QG9TGF3D-Q
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