By: Andi Agus Mumang, S.KM
Epidemiology as a branch of sciences in public health has a
principle as a tool to identify the determinants of a disease, the natural
history of a disease, and the classification of disease. Epidemiology basically
it not only be applied to a case of disease, but also can be applied in a
variety of health problems from the aspect of health itself or in terms of
non-health aspects (social, economic, political and policy). Furthermore,
Epidemiology will conduct planning and evaluation of health programs.
Here is a description of the application of the principles
of epidemiology:
Identify Risk Factors or Determinants
An epidemiology expert clearly and plainly should know about
the risk factors for a disease / health problems ranging from phase exposed
till phase of handling cases. Such phases have been described in the first node
of the node management of epidemiology. In These stages used to identify the
risk factors as root causes and then formulated in a developing hypotheses to
prove there is relationship or not on the incidence of disease. Read more
Trip Disease History
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Knowing Classification of Diseases
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Evaluation of Health Programs
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References:
Hadisaputro S, M Nizar, Suwando A. 2011. Managerial
Epidemiology, Theory and Applications. Semarang: BP Diponegoro University of
Semarang.
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