Category: Sociology

It is essential to discuss the economics associated with the different treatment options. This demands the exploration of the cost of illness also known as the burden of disease.

 

Moreover, they also show probable high risk areas in the future epidemics. These models are based on previous trends of incidents and climate factors. Thus they allow for better prediction of disease incidents or outcomes.

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Epidemics of infectious diseases arise due to spread of the disease across individuals. It spreads within a geographical region over a period of time. When they spread at global level, it is referred to as pandemic. An infectious disease originates at a particular point.

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Epidemiology of infectious diseases often require geographical information. Both spatial and temporal factors of a population can affect disease spread.

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Descriptive analysis of epidemiological data includes hypotheses development. This is based on variability of disease outcome rates with demographic variables. On the other hand, analytical epidemiology determines cause or mode of disease epidemic outbreak.

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By Avishek Majumder & Chandrika Kapagunta on September 27, 2017 1 Comment

Descriptive epidemiology refers to analyzing the existing trends of a disease epidemic. The study is conducted with respect to time, place and persons (Aschengrau and Seage, 2013).

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By Avishek Majumder & Chandrika Kapagunta on September 25, 2017 No Comments

Forecasting models help detect future epidemics using related factors like environment, vector density or socioeconomic factors. In this article, the role of forecasting models in epidemiology is explained.

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By Avishek Majumder & Priya Chetty on July 29, 2017 No Comments

India constitutes about 17.1% of the total world population (Korotayev, Goldstone, & Zinkina, 2015). According to the 2011 census,  64.8% of the total population is settled in the rural regions of the country (Bongaarts & Sinding, 2011).