(1) The system is being exploited by population specialists, demographers, medical demographers and epidemiologists, both nationally and internationally, both for analytical purposes and as part of health monitoring systems.
(2) Collaborations of epidemiologists and experimental scientists.
(3) Epidemiologists need to conduct studies to determine if there is an increased likelihood of developing cancer in betel chewing pregnant women and OC users due to increased sensitivity of their lymphocytes to genetic damage compared with nonchewing pregnant women and OC users.
(4) It is also useful to epidemiologists who, for example, may be interested in estimating the prevalence of depression; it is important to know that they must count some cases of CBS's along with cases of depression with a more typically Western symptomatology.
(5) Sources of information are suggested for the use of and detailed study by the epidemiologist.
(6) Therefore, a close working relationship should be established between the epidemiologist and the hospital's data processing department.
(7) Exposed subjects were interviewed by emergency room staff immediately after the episode and the next morning by telephone by a public health epidemiologist.
(8) The use of recent life change measurement in the lives of persons developing mental disorders parallels the measurement of risk factors by epidemiologists to understand disease distribution.
(9) A main concern of descriptive epidemiologists is the presentation and interpretation of temporal variations in cancer rates.
(10) The work of epidemiologists and biologists results in no less heterogeneous results.
(11) Community-based researchers often need the special expertise of university statisticians, epidemiologists, and research methodologists, and the enthusiasm of fellow researchers.
(12) Teaching new professionals to apply the holistic perspective of the epidemiologist will enhance the likelihood of establishing realistic program goals, and adopting a comprehensive, balanced approach.
(13) At best, according to the epidemiologists' calculations, deprivation accounts for less than half (around 40%) of Glasgow's " mortality gap " compared with the rest of the UK.
(14) Methods for measuring genetic damage directly in the human fetus could provide epidemiologists and clinical researchers with powerful tools for investigating similar associations in humans.
(15) According to materials of the symposium at the XVI All-Union Congress of Microbiologists and Epidemiologists the author presents some trends in the improvement of teaching epidemiology, including renovation of the programs and teaching plans at the sanitary-hygienic faculty, development of practical habits and rationalization in the organization of practical work at the therapeutic and pediatric faculties.
(16) The availability of an epidemiologic typing system for Candida species that is sensitive, rapid, inexpensive, and easy to perform would clearly be an advantage to the mycologist, microbiologist, and epidemiologist in the ongoing struggle to understand the epidemiology and pathogenesis of candidiasis.
(17) Simon Hay, an Oxford-based epidemiologist, urged Brazilian authorities to aggressively eliminate mosquitoes around the northeastern stadiums.
(18) Without question, the most appropriate means of objectively identifying infection rates, appropriate and inappropriate use of antimicrobials, and trends in morbidity is with an infection control program, usually consisting of an epidemiologist or specially trained nurses.
(19) The low autopsy rate for patients with AIDS is of concern to both epidemiologists and clinical researchers: the autopsy is vital to a better understanding of the spectrum of human immunodeficiency virus infection.
(20) Findings of this study suggest additional avenues of investigative work for epidemiologists and clinicians concerned with the well being of employee groups in various industries.
Epidemiology
Definition:
(n.) That branch of science which treats of epidemics.
Example Sentences:
(1) Consensual but rationally weak criteria devised to extract inferences of causality from such results confirm the generic inadequacy of epidemiology in this area, and are unable to provide definitive scientific support to the perceived mandate for public health action.
(2) The epidemiology of HIV infection among women and hence among children has progressively changed since the onset of the epidemic in Western countries.
(3) Subtypes of HBs Ag are already of great use in the epidemiology of hepatitis B virus infections; yet they may have additional significance.
(4) Because of the dearth of epidemiological clues as to causation, studies with experimental animal models assume greater importance.
(5) Epidemiological studies on low risks involve a number of major methodological difficulties.
(6) The purpose of this paper is to discuss the potential for integrating surveillance techniques in reproductive epidemiology with geographic information system technology in order to identify populations at risk around hazardous waste sites.
(7) The clinical and epidemiological aspects of these 35 cases are discussed.
(8) We present a mathematical model that is suitable to reconcile this apparent contradiction in the interpretation of the epidemiological data: the observed parallel time series for the spread of AIDS in groups with different risk of infection can be realized by computer simulation, if one assumes that the outbreak of full-blown AIDS only occurs if HIV and a certain infectious coagent (cofactor) CO are present.
(9) Schistosomal obstructive uropathy was studied by clinical, laboratory epidemiologic and pathologic analysis in 155 Egyptian patients treated surgically.
(10) The epidemiological effectiveness of dipyridamol, an interferon-inducing agent used for the prevention of influenza and viral acute respiratory diseases, was tested in 4 epidemiological trials, 3 of them carried out as double blind trials.
(11) Studies of diarrhoeal disease have been limited mainly to descriptive epidemiological investigations.
(12) This preliminary study estimates the occurrence of concurrent helminth infection in Africa and Brazil to determine whether such an approach is justified epidemiologically.
(13) This method can characterize reliably flavivirus field isolates at the molecular level without extensive virus propagation and molecular cloning, and will be a valuable tool for molecular epidemiological studies.
(14) In this series, the association between the anomalous ductal insertion and biliary tract disease cannot be established, since the method of patient selection obviates any epidemiologic consideration.
(15) This may help explain the poor correlation of low-back pain with radiographic degenerative changes reported in previous epidemiologic studies.
(16) Nevertheless, they are still being widely used, since in most cases only the epidemiology of the disease points to the etiologic role of A. cantonensis.
(17) However, the epidemiology and clinical course of AIDS are different in Africa and in the West.
(18) The author formulates possible approaches to the solution of the information problem in epidemiology.
(19) As yet there is no evidence that the occurrence of savanna flies in the rain forest zone of Liberia was of epidemiological significance.
(20) A 12-month epidemiological survey of attacks of acute myocardial infarction was carried out in a large urban population.