POPM 3240 Lecture Notes - Lecture 9: Mathematical Model, Compartmental Models In Epidemiology, Population Health
20 Jan 2017
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Epidemiology research is collaborative and team-based: work with people from many disciplines, ensures good research practices and effective work dissemination. Taking an interdisciplinary approach: theory and practice of epidemiology has drastically changed over last century. Improved technologies, more advanced/accurate/precise tests, improved understanding of genetics of host & agent: advancements, pressures, and challenges have evolved the way epidemiologists study and influence health and disease in populations. Integration of concepts, tools and approaches from a variety of other disciplines: Public health: epidemiology not only deals with multi-faceted issues, but has to continually look for ways to modify or reinvent traditional epidemiological approaches in order to answer questions relating to health and disease in populations. Mathematical models conceptual tools that explain how an object, or system of objects, will behave: (cid:862)explicit mathematical description of the simplified dynamics of a system(cid:863) Models come in variety of forms: simple to highly complex: depends on:
