Epidemiology and Public Health
Epidemiology is a vital module of public health practice. The discipline aims to afford the basis to prevent disease and to endorse the health of populations through the study of the occurrence and distribution of health-related states or events, with the study of determinants persuading such states. It is the scientific method of investigation problem-solving used by disease detectives— epidemiologists, laboratory scientists, statisticians, physicians and other health care providers, and public health professionals—to get to the root of wellbeing problems and outbreaks in a community. Epidemiology is an outlet of public health that visions a community as the “patient” and numerous health events as the “condition” that needs treatment, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC).