Epidemiology

discipline combining epidemiology and pathology

process of monitoring wastewater for contaminants, as well as pathogens or psychoactive drugs

method of gathering health information about a deceased individual to determine cause of death

test used in the analysis of stratified or matched categorical data

Yersinia pestis as historically significant pandemics; perplexingly high fatalities.

Paradox of high CHD incidence among Israeli Jews

statistical technique

Cause and effect relationship in medicine

Infodemiology was defined by Gunther Eysenbach in the early 2000s as information epidemiology. It is an area of science research focused on scanning the internet for user-contributed health-related content, with the ultimate goal of improving public health. Later, it is also defined as the science of mitigating public health problems resulting from an infodemic.

global increase in social isolation

monitoring of occurrence of specific conditions to assess health levels of a population, or study of disease rates in a specific cohort