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Preferred Name

Epidemiology
Definitions
Branch of epidemiology primarily concerned with the role of social factors-such as socioeconomic class, gender, or ethnicity on patterns of health. 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.
Synonyms
Epidemiology, Social
Social Epidemiology
Epidemiologies, Social
Social Epidemiologies
Type http://www.w3.org/2002/07/owl#Class

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definition

Branch of epidemiology primarily concerned with the role of social factors-such as socioeconomic class, gender, or ethnicity on patterns of health.

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.
altLabel
Epidemiology, Social
Social Epidemiology
Epidemiologies, Social
Social Epidemiologies
prefLabel
Epidemiology
TH
POPLINE (1994)
BIOETHICS (1989)
NLM (2021)
notation
D004813
EC
methods:Epidemiologic Methods
DX
19660101
MN
H02.403.720.500
MMR
20200514
AQL
CL EC ED ES HI IS LJ OG SN ST TD
subClassOf
Semantic type UMLS property
DC
1
MDA
19990101
type
tui
T091
cui
C0014507
C0814832
AN
specialty only; prefer /epidemiol with diseases; do not confuse with TOPOGRAPHY, MEDICAL: epidemiology emphasizes disease outbreaks & disease-related conditions, topography emphasizes geography-related events
Inverse of AQ
TERMUI
T014677
T001005558
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