EPIDEMIOLOGI

DESKRIPTIF
 Incident and Prevalence
Rate and Dynamic Population
Calculation Time Observation
Prevalence, Incident and Duration
Life expectation
Mortality and Life Expectation
 Epidemiology is defined by the object of research, to identity determinants that
change the occurrence of health phenomena in human populations.
Epidemiologic methods Now all diseases or health events are
were first used to study studied by means of epidemiologic
diseases like cholera methods and these methods are constantly
and measles changing to meet these new needs.

Epidemiologists have often been actors in

Today the discipline is used to study
political conflicts. Poverty, social
genetic, behavioral, and environmental
inequalities, unemployment, and
causes of infectious and non-infectious
crowding are among the main
diseases.
determinants of health
A number of measures are used to describe the frequency
of a disease, but to
begin with we could count the number of people with the
disease in the population
(the prevalence of the disease). We might also like to
know how many new cases
appear over a given time period either as an estimate of
the risk of getting the disease
over a given time span or as a rate, defined as new cases
per time unit (the cumulative
incidence or the incidence rate).