Epidemiological information is used to plan and evaluate strategies to prevent illness and as a guide to the management of patients in whom disease has already developed. Like the clinical findings and pathology, the epidemiology of a disease is an integral part of its basic description.

1. UNIT-4th
EPIDEMIOLOGY
Guided by, Prepared by,
Dr.Anjalatchi Miss. Preeti
Rawat
M.Sc.(N).MD(AM)MBA(HA) M.Sc (N)1st year
Era College of Nursing Sarfarajganj Era college of
nursing
Lucknow 2260021 Sarfarjganj
Lucknow
2260021

2. Topic- Uses of
Epidemiology
UNIT-4th
EPIDEMIOLOGY
Subject- Advance Nursing Practice

3. At the end of session, the learner
will be able to understand :-
 The introduction .
 7 major uses of epidemiology.
 Some other uses of epidemiology
 Systematic study of uses of
epidemiology

4. INTRODUCTION
 Epidemiologists obtains information
about the occurrence of disease and
also help to determine which in the three
possible sets of disease factors, host,
agent, environment are important in the
occurrence of a specific disease or class
of disease.
 Epidemiology help to identify priority
health issues and possible causes of
disease or illness.
-the 7 uses of epidemiology will now be

5. Uses of Epidemiology
1.To study historically the rise and
fall of disease in the population.
-Study of disease profile & time trends
in human population.
2.Community diagnosis.
-Identification and qualification of health
problems in an community in term of
mortality & morbidity rates & ratios.

6. 3.Planning & evaluation of health
services .
-Epidemiological information about the
distribution of health problems over time &
place provides the fundamental basis for
planning & developing the health services
& for assessing the impact of these
services.
4.Evaluation of individual risks & chance.
-Epidemiologist calculate relative risk &
attributable risks for a factors related to be
a cause of disease

7. Cont..
Frequently association finding in individual
patients.
6.Completing the natural history of
disease
-Epidemiologist studying disease patterns in
the community in relation to agent, host&
environmental factors is in a better position
to fill up the gaps in the natural history of
disease.
7.Searching for Causes and risk factors

8. These are some other uses of
Epidemiology
 Study the occurrence and distribution of
disease in the community
 Identify the determinants of disease
 Diagnose the health status of the
community on the basis of mortality and
morbidity .
 Estimate the risks.
 Plan effective needs based health care
services.
 Determine the usefulness and
effectiveness of new or innovative

9. Systematic study of uses……
 RISE & NCDS
R- Rise and fall of disease in the population.
I- Individual risks identification
S- Syndrome identification
E- Evaluation of services.
N- Natural history of disease completion .
C- Community diagnosis and treatment
D- Determinants identification.
S- Strategy development for planning and
implementation

10. Summary
Till now we have discussed about the
uses of epidemiology in that we have
discussed 7 major uses of epidemiology
, to study the historically rise and fall of
disease in the population, community
diagnosis ,planning and evaluation,
individual risks and chances, syndrome
identifications, natural history of disease,
searching for causes and risks factors.

11. Conclusion
Now I am going to
conclude my topic uses of
epidemiology I hope you
all understand the certain
uses of epidemiology .

12. Reference
 Parks k . Text book of preventive medicine .23 rd
edition . m/s banarsidas bhanot publisher prem
nagar. India 2015. page no. 123-167
 Shebeer .p .basheer . Advance nursing practice
.2nd edition.EMMESS
publisher.mahalakshmipuram, banglore.2015.
page no.193-200.

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