Question

1. Define the content, uses, and significance of epidemiology as a means of public health and health care investigation.

2. Describe epidemiological approaches to defining and measuring health problems in a specific population paying attention to the concepts of Morbidity and Mortality.

3. Describe the role of epidemiological approaches in evaluating the effectiveness and efficiency of health care and preventive health services.

write at least two paragraphs on how you will apply the above concepts to your current profession or how you can envision applying concepts in the future

Answer 1

Epidemiology is which of distribution and determinants of health or health related states in specified population .application of this study to control the diseases.

It is the cornerstone of public health .

Uses :

• To study the natural history of disease, disability ,injury and death.
• To make community diagnosis
• To assess risk factors of disease in population.
• To assess ,evaluate and conduct research on the health programmes.
• To complete clinical picture.
• To identify syndromes.
• To search did causes of health and disease by studying incidence of different population group

2) epidemiological study requires systematic collection of health data ,its analysis ,description of health needs and health problems .

Epidemiological approaches :

Descriptive epidemiology

Analytical epidemiology

Experimental epidemiology

Descriptive and analytical approaches are observational studies because the investigator does not interview .he makes an observation of frequency and distribution of disease by person ,place and time .

In experimental approach done to conform the cause and effect association.

3) role of epidemiological approaches :

• Epidemiology have great role in designing and managing health care services .
• For effecive management of resources to maintain and promote the health of population.
• For promotion of health and prevention of illness
• To know the disease surveillance , outbreak investigation and obswrvational studies to identify risk factors
• To investigate health problem
• To identify etiology of health problem
• For better health outcome .