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HEP 112 Introduction to Epidemiology

ND1 levelMedical & Health Sciences22 topics

HEP 112 covers 22 topics. StudyPath paces them into daily study sessions that finish before your exam date, with practice questions and worked answers for each one.

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Course outline

The topics this course covers, in teaching order.

  1. Concept of epidemiology
  2. Basic epidemiologic terms
  3. Epidemiological designs
  4. Uses of epidemiology
  5. Infectious diseases and disease process
  6. Reservoirs of infection
  7. Modes of disease transmission
  8. Control of communicable diseases
  9. Investigation of epidemics
  10. Surveillance, record-keeping and notification
  11. Campaign programmes for disease control
  12. Strategies for control of endemic diseases
  13. Epidemiology units and data tools
  14. Port health inspection
  15. Disease control campaigns
  16. Health education as campaign method
  17. Mass vaccination strategies
  18. Static vaccination centres
  19. Mobile vaccination operations
  20. House-to-house campaigns
  21. Village-to-village campaigns
  22. Collection-point campaigns

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Concept of epidemiology

Epidemiology is the study of the distribution and determinants of health-related states in defined populations, and the application of this study to control health problems. Mastering its core concepts—definition, purpose, key terms (population, disease, distribution, determinants), and the epidemiological triad—is essential because exam questions frequently test the ability to link these ideas to real-world public…

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