Healthcare and Patient Safety

Epidermiology and Healthcare

Epidemiology is the study of the distribution and determinants of health-related states or events (including disease), and the application of this study to the control of diseases and other health problems. Healthcare is responsible to the prevailing population conditions, such as fertility, non-communicable diseases and deaths in specific conditions, and grows in the minority and elderly subgroups.

Epidemiologist measures such as incidence and validity are presented. A useful definition of health services and appropriate sources of data are also given. The use of epidemiologic and other data, like aging of the population, in the planning of health services is illustrated. Similarly, the use of study of evaluation of various services is highlighted.

•        Epidemiology and Public Policy

•        Computational modeling and epidemiology

•        Health, Security, and new Biological Threats

•        Disease Epidemiology

•        Nutritional Epidemiology

•        Genetic Epidemiology