POPM 3240 Lecture Notes - Lecture 9: The Hospital For Sick Children, Sexually Transmitted Infection, West African Ebola Virus Epidemic
8 Dec 2016
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The theory and practice of epidemiology has drastically changed over the last century. More importantly, this evolution has seen integration of concepts, tools, and approaches from a variety of other disciplines in order to more effectively tackle today"s problems. Some of these disciplines include (but certainly are not limited to): This unit is aimed at providing a high level look at what these other disciplines offer epidemiologists and how they can be used within the context of epidemiological research. Mathematical models have become some of the cornerstone approaches for understanding, predicting and controlling disease spread in populations. Using these robust models, epidemiologists are better able to understand how disease moves through a population of susceptible people. Examples of infectious (communicable) diseases: hiv, measles, polio, smallpox, malaria, q-fever, rabies, sars, ebola; Examples of non-infectious (non-communicable) disease: diabetes, celiac disease, cancer, osteoporosis.
