8^th Pathology and Infectious Disease Conference

Epidemiology and Public Health

The facet of epidemiology concerned with recognizing health-related causes and effects. Analytical epidemiology aims to research and study risk and protector factors of diseases and recognize factors in a diseased population that varies from a non-diseased population. Where descriptive epidemiology helps to report because of disease within a population and it helps to understand the occurrence of disease. The normal way to gain this knowledge is by group comparisons. Such comparison starts from one or more hypotheses about how the determinant may influence occurrence of disease. Analytical epidemiology controls the cause of an outbreak. Using the case control method, the epidemiologist can look on the major factors which may cause the disease.