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Epidemiology Flashcards

Exam 1

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Epidemiology: What is it a study of

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Study of the distribution and determinants of health-related states among specified populations and the application of that study to the control of health problems

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Epidemiology is the science of what?

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Epi = upon

Demos = people

Ology =science

Epidemiology = the science which deals with what falls upon people…..Bridge between biomedical, social and behavioral sciences

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Purpose of Epidemiology:

To discover what?

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Discover the agent, host, and environmental factors that affect health

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Purpose of Epidemiology:

To determine what?

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Determine the relative importance of causes of illness, disability, and death

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Purpose of Epidemiology:

To identify what?

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Identify those segments of the population that have the greatest risk from specific causes of ill health

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Purpose of Epidemiology:

To recommend what?

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To recommend / assist in application of / - - evaluate best interventions (preventive and therapeutic measures)

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Purpose of Epidemiology:

To evaluate what?

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Evaluate the effectiveness of health programs and services in improving population health

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Purpose of Epidemiology:

What does epidemiology provide the foundation for?

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To provide foundation for public policy

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Epidemiology Key Terms:

Epidemic or outbreak: What is it?

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Epidemic or outbreak: disease occurrence among a population that is in excess of what is expected in a given time and place.

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Epidemiology Key Terms:

Cluster:

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Cluster: group of cases in a specific time and place that might be more than expected.

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Epidemiology Key Terms

Endemic:

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Endemic: disease or condition present among a population at all times.

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Epidemiology Key Terms

Pandemic:

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Pandemic: a disease or condition that spreads across regions.

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Epidemiology Key Terms

Rate:

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Rate: number of cases occurring during a specific period; always dependent on the size of the population during that period.

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Historical Roots of Epidemiology

Ancient time

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Ancient Times: Hippocrates (460 to 375 BC)

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Historical Roots of Epidemiology

Middle Ages:

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1348 - Plague (Black Death)

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Historical Roots of Epidemiology

18th century:

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Florence Nightingale (1820 to 1910)

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Historical Roots of Epidemiology

19th century:

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Modern epidemiology

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Historical Roots of Epidemiology

19th century: Modern epidemiology
What did it include?

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Causal thinking

Sanitary statistics

Infectious-disease epidemiology

Chronic-disease epidemiology

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Historical Roots of Epidemiology

Current:

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Current: Eco-epidemiology

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Sources of Epidemiologic Information include

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Vital statistics

Census data

Reportable diseases

Disease registries

Environmental monitoring

National Center for Health Statistics Health surveys

Informal observational studies

Scientific studies

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Data Sources and Collection Methods

Data Sources include:

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Individual persons

Environment

Healthcare providers

Nonhealth-related sources (financial, legal)

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Public Health Core Sciences

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Prevention effectiveness

Epidemiology

Laboratory

Informatics

Surveillance

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Host, Agent, and Environment Model

Host:

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Susceptible human or animal who harbors and nourishes a disease-causing agent

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Host, Agent, and Environment Model

Agent:

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A factor that causes or contributes to a health problem or condition

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Host, Agent, and Environment Model

Environment:

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All the external factors surrounding the host that might influence vulnerability or resistance

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What is the Epidemiology Triad? What does it cause?

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Host

Environment

Agent

Causes illness state?

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Theories of Causality in Health and Illness: What is it?

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Relationship between a cause and its effect

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Theories of Causality in Health and Illness

Relationship between a cause and its effect
What kind of chain is this?

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Chain of causation

Causation in noninfectious disease:

Multiple causation

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Theories of Causality in Health and Illness

Relationship between a cause and its effect
Causation in noninfectious disease:

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environmental exposure and behavior

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Theories of Causality in Health and Illness

Multiple causation

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Dever’s epidemiological model also called the Web of Causation

Web of causation: there are multiple reasons someone can get into a car accident. (ex; medical reason, impaired driving, the car- inspection sticker is fake and was never inspected, people who shouldn’t be driving are driving.

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Is the following statement True or False?

The current thinking of epidemiology focuses on causal thinking.

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False

Rationale: Current thinking of epidemiology is termed eco-epidemiology, distinguished by transforming global health patterns and technological advances.

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Immunity: What is it?

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A host’s ability to resist a particular infectious disease–causing agent.

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Immunity:

What are the types of immunity?

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Passive immunity:

Active immunity:

Cross-immunity:

Herd immunity:

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Immunity:

Passive immunity?

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short-term; acquired naturally or artificially

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Immunity:

Active immunity: How long is it? How do you acquire?

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long-term, sometimes lifelong; acquired naturally or artificially

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Immunity:

Cross-immunity:

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Cross-immunity: immunity to one agent providing immunity to another related agent

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Immunity:

Herd immunity:

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Herd immunity: immunity level present in a population group

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Natural History of a Disease or Health Condition

What are the stages?

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Susceptibility stage

Subclinical disease stage

Clinical disease stage

Resolution stage

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Natural History of a Disease or Health Condition

What is included in the subclinical stage?

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Incubation period

Induction period

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Natural History of a Disease or Health Condition

What is clinical stage?

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During the clinical disease stage, signs and symptoms develop, and in the early phase of this period, they may be evident only through laboratory test findings.

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Natural History of a Disease or Health Condition

What is susceptibility stage?

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In the susceptibility stage, the disease is not present, and individuals have not been exposed.

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Natural History of a Disease or Health Condition

What is subclinical disease stage?

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During the subclinical disease stage, individuals have been exposed but are asymptomatic

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Natural History of a Disease or Health Condition

What is resolution stage?

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During the resolution stage, the disease causes sufficient changes to produce recognizable signs and symptoms.

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During which of the following stage would the community health nurse first expect to see signs of a disease via laboratory testing?

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Clinical disease stage

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Risk

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Probability that a disease or unfavorable health condition will develop

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Risk: What is it directly influenced by?

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Directly influenced by biology, environment, lifestyle, and system of health care

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Risk: What are risk factors considered?

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Risk factors: negative influences

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Risk:

Populations at risk: What is this?

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Populations at risk: collection of people among whom a health problem has the possibility of developing because certain influencing factors are present or absent or because there are modifiable risk factors

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Comparing Population Characteristics

What helps us compare health problems among different populations?

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Rates help us compare health problems among different populations that include two or more groups who differ by a selected characteristic

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Understanding Rates

What is rates the primary measurement for?

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Rate—the primary measurement used to describe the occurrence (quantity) of a state of health in a specific group of people in a given time period

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Understanding Rates

What helps determine the characteristics of those who are at high risk?

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Measuring the magnitude or frequency of a state of health determines the characteristics of those who are at high risk.

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Understanding Rates

What provides the best indicators of the probability that a specific state of health will occur?

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Calculation of rates provides the best indicators of the probability that a specific state of health will occur.

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Understanding Rates

Incidence:

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refers to all new cases of a disease or health condition appearing during a given time

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Understanding Rates

What kind of rates provide the best description of a health condition?

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Specific rates calculated by person, place, and time provide the best description of a health condition.

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Understanding Rates

Crude rate:

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Crude rate—measurement of the occurrence of the health problem or condition being investigated in the entire population.

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Understanding Rates

Adjusted rate:

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Adjusted rate—statistical procedure that removes the effects of differences in the composition of a population, such as age, when comparing one with another.

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Understanding Rates

Incidence rate

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—measure of the probability that people without a certain condition will develop that condition over a period of time.

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Understanding Rates

Prevalence rate

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Prevalence rate—measures the number of people in a given population who have an existing condition at a given point in time

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Types of Incidence Rates

Mortality rates:

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Death rates, common incidence rates calculated for public health purposes

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Types of Incidence Rates

Morbidity rate:

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Rate at which a disease occurs in a population from acute to chronic illness.

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Types of Incidence Rates

Incidence rate:

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Incidence rate: Measure of the probability that people without a certain condition will develop that condition over a period of time

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Types of Incidence Rates

Rate Formula:

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(number of cases/population at risk) x 100 = Rate %

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Types of Incidence Rates

Relative risk ratio:

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The ratio of the incidence rate in the exposed group and the incidence rate in the nonexposed group.

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Types Of Epidemiologic Studies include:

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  1. Experimental
  2. Observational
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Types Of Epidemiologic Studies include:

Observational studies include:

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Descriptive

Analytic

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Methods in Epidemiologic Investigative Process

Experimental: What occurs in this study?

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Investigators control certain factors within the study from the beginning

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Methods in Epidemiologic Investigative Process

Observational –> Descriptive epidemiology: What occurs

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Descriptive epidemiology - Data are collected about health problems occurring among the population through public health surveillance.

The data collected include information about when the problem occurred, as well as where and who were affected (that is, time, place, and person).

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Methods in Epidemiologic Investigative Process

Observational –> Analytic epidemiology : What occurs

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Analytic epidemiology - Comparison between different groups to determine the role of different causative conditions or risk factors.

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Descriptive and Analytic Epidemiology

DESCRIPTIVE: What kind of questions are being asked?

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When was the population affected?

Where was the population affected?

Who was affected?

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Descriptive and Analytic Epidemiology

ANALYTIC: What kind of questions are being asked?

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How was the population affected?

Why was the population affected?

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Methods in Epidemiologic Investigative Process – Analytic Studies

What kind of studies are used for Analytic epidemiology?

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Cross-sectional studies

Case–control studies

Cohort studies

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Study Design — Cross-Sectional (Prevalence) Study

Why are subjects selected?

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Subjects are selected because they are members of a certain population subset at a certain time

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Study Design — Cohort Study:

What kind of study is done?

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Longitudinal (long term) study where a group of participants are followed over a long period of time

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Study Design Type — Case-Control Study

How are subjected identified?

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Subjects identified as having a disease or condition are compared with subjects without the same disease or condition

75
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Is the following statement True or False?

Analytic epidemiology involves cohort studies.

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True

Rationale: Analytic epidemiology attempts to identify associations between a human disease or health problem and its possible causes.

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Research Process for an Epidemiologic Study

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Identify the problem.

Review the literature.

Design the study.

Collect the data.

Analyze the findings.

Develop conclusions and applications.

Disseminate the findings.

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Outbreak Investigation: How many steps are there?

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Ten steps of outbreak investigations

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Outbreak Investigation:

Ten steps of outbreak investigations

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Establishing the existence of an outbreak

Preparing for fieldwork

Verifying the diagnosis

Defining and identifying cases

Using descriptive epidemiology

Developing hypotheses

Evaluating the hypotheses

Refining the hypotheses

Implementing control and prevention measures

Communicating findings

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