Epidemiology & Public Health

Reproductive, Perinatal and Pediatric Epidemiology

The study which deals with the distribution and determination of diseases in human population is said to be Reproductive Epidemiology. Family planning, adolescent sexual behavior, maternal morbidity and mortality and population based reproductive health surveys are some of the major topics that come under reproductive epidemiology. Perinatal epidemiology mainly deals with pregnancy complications such as preterm birth, birth defects, gestational diabetes and preeclampsia and pregnancy outcomes. Pediatric epidemiology studies about the disease conditions in children whose age ranges from birth up to 18 years of age.