Tuesday, December 4, 2007

Define / What is an Epidemic ?

Here's a simple way of defining Epidemic:


Epidemic is the occurrence of a health related event clearly in excess of normal expectancy, in a definite time and specified region


Epi = On

Demos = People, the same as in Demo-graphics


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Difference Between Public Health and Medicine

The two biggest differences between public health and traditional medicine are as follows:


1. Public Health is Population focused, Medicine is individual focused

2. Public Health is Prevention heavy – medicine is diagnosis and treatment heavy





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