Describe key aspects of public health. Identify current patterns of ill health and inequality in the UK (P3)

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Describe key aspects of public health (P1)

An epidemiologist needs to know several things to able to study the spread of disease in the human population. This is so that they can understand the spread of infection to help over come or stop a crisis of an epidemic.

These are some of the things that they would analyse and measure within their studies.

Rate

In public health rate is the measurement of the frequency of occurrence.

Prevalence rate

This is the number of all people with a disease or condition in a given population at a specific time, either a point in time or over a period of time.

Incident rate

This measures only new cases of a disease or condition in question in a population over a specific period of time.

Morbidity rates

Morbidity rates measure the incidents of diseases within a specific time period.

Mortality rates

Morbidity rate is the measure of the number of people that have died in a specific time scale.

Other things that an epidemiologist may study are:-

Age- this might include the