Epidemiology in Health and Nursing
The term epidemiology is used to define medical studies which identify and interpret diseases and medical conditions that are inflicted on, or visited upon human populations due to specific physical and demographic conditions . The term is used exclusively to distinguish between diseases that are visited upon a population from those which reside upon a population . Whenever epidemiology is discussed, it needs to be kept in mind that information and statistics need to be collected from a population which is affected by a disease or medical condition which is not endemic to the population or region. Also, epidemiology refers to Continue reading...