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  2. Epidemiology - Wikipedia

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    Epidemiology is the study and analysis of the distribution (who, when, and where), patterns and determinants of health and disease conditions in a defined population.. It is a cornerstone of public health, and shapes policy decisions and evidence-based practice by identifying risk factors for disease and targets for preventive healthcare.

  3. List of epidemics and pandemics - Wikipedia

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    Pandemics timeline death tolls. This is a list of the largest known epidemics and pandemics caused by an infectious disease in humans. Widespread non-communicable diseases such as cardiovascular disease and cancer are not included.

  4. Farr's laws - Wikipedia

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    In 1840, Farr submitted a letter to the Annual Report of the Registrar General of Births, Deaths and Marriages in England.In that letter, he applied mathematics to the records of deaths during a recent smallpox epidemic, proposing that:

  5. Diseases and epidemics of the 19th century - Wikipedia

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    History does not recount any incidents of cholera until the 19th century. Cholera came in seven waves, the last two of which occurred in the 20th century. [citation needed] The first cholera pandemic started in 1816, spread across India by 1820, [18] and extended to Southeast Asia and Central Europe, lasting until 1826.

  6. Janet Lane-Claypon - Wikipedia

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    Epidemiology Janet Elizabeth Lane-Claypon, Lady Forber JP (3 February 1877 – 17 July 1967) was an English physician. She was one of the founders of the science of epidemiology , pioneering the use of cohort studies and case-control studies .

  7. John Snow - Wikipedia

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    John Snow (15 March 1813 – 16 June 1858 [1]) was an English physician and a leader in the development of anaesthesia and medical hygiene.He is considered one of the founders of modern epidemiology and early germ theory, in part because of his work in tracing the source of a cholera outbreak in London's Soho, which he identified as a particular public water pump.

  8. History of epidemiology - Wikipedia

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    This page was last edited on 18 April 2014, at 18:09 (UTC).; Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License; additional terms may ...

  9. Epidemic - Wikipedia

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    The Plague of Athens (c. 1652 –1654) by Michiel Sweerts, illustrating the devastating epidemic that struck Athens in 430 BC, as described by the historian Thucydides. The United States Centers for Disease Control and Prevention defines epidemic broadly: "Epidemic refers to an increase, often sudden, in the number of cases of a disease above what is normally expected in that population in ...