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Epidemiology is the study of the way diseases spread through groups of people, and how we can control them. It is not mainly about one body on a bed. It is about patterns: how many people got sick, in which places, at which ages, after which meals or journeys. From those numbers, scientists look for the cause and for the best way to protect everyone else. You will meet the word in news about flu, dirty water, or a new virus, and in public-health classes. Though actually, the same tools are used for things that are not infections at all — smoking and lung disease, car crashes, even loneliness — because “who, where, when, how many” still helps. The person who does this work is an . The outbreak itself is an epidemic, not epidemiology.
From the word’s history
Late Latin epidemia + -logy; see epidemic.
由晚期拉丁文 epidemia 加 -logy 組成。
組成From Late Latin epidemia (a disease among the people) + -logy (the study of). The epi- piece is “among / upon”; the dem- piece is “people.”
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- epidemica disease spreading through a community — this study grew from that idea
- epidemiologistthe person who does this study
- pandemica disease spreading across many countries; shares the “people” piece (demos)
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以下是外部詞典記錄的用法，摘錄並精簡格式，我們還沒有寫成教學內容。上面的說明才是我們自己寫的；有些用法可能上面已經講過了。
epidemiologynoun/ˌɛpɪdiːmiˈɒləd͡ʒi/
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sciencesThe branch of science dealing with the spread and control of diseases, viruses, concepts etc. throughout populations or systems.
- In addition to new diseases, Quammen touches on many of the examples often included in standard disease ecology or epidemiology courses—for example, myxomatosis in nonnative rabbits of Australia, and mutation rates in RNA versus DNA viruses.
- Melzer and Luke C. Pilling, a research fellow in genomic epidemiology at the University of Exeter Medical School, have also studied the genetics underlying longevity.
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sciencesThe epidemiological body of knowledge about a particular thing.
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