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• Absolute risk reduction [r]: Decrease in risk of a given activity or treatment in relation to a control activity or treatment. ^[e]
• Applied social sciences [r]: Applied social sciences are those social science disciplines, professions and occupations which seek to use basic social science research and theory to improve the daily life of communities, organizations and persons. ^[e]
• Asperger syndrome [r]: Add brief definition or description
• Bayes Theorem [r]: Result giving the conditional probability of B given A in terms of the probabilities of A and B and the conditional probability of A given B. ^[e]
• Case-control study [r]: Research into the risk factors of people with a disease, compared with those without a disease. ^[e]
• Centers for Disease Control [r]: A major center of epidemiologic research and clinical support in epidemics, considered a world resource although part of the United States Public Health Service, located in Atlanta, Georgia, USA ^[e]
• Cholera [r]: A life-threatening gastrointestinal infections disease caused by Vibrio cholerae, with a high mortality rate from dehydration unless treated, usually with oral rehydration therapy ^[e]
• Cross-sectional study [r]: Studies in which the presence or absence of disease or other health-related variables are determined in each member of the study population or in a representative sample at one particular time. This contrasts with longitudinal studies which are followed over a period of time. ^[e]
• Demography [r]: The study of the change in the size, density, distribution and composition of human populations over time. ^[e]
• Disease [r]: A condition of the body in which one or more of its components fail to operate properly, resulting in disability, pain or other forms of suffering, or behavioral aberrations. ^[e]
• Ebola [r]: A virus that causes severe hemhorragic fever and often death, that is easily spread. ^[e]
• Evidence-based medicine [r]: The conscientious, explicit and judicious use of current best evidence in making decisions about the care of individual patients. ^[e]
• Evolution of the human diet [r]: Factors in the development of the human diet in history. ^[e]
• Florence Nightingale [r]: British nursing pioneer (12 May 1820 – 13 August 1910). ^[e]
• Geography [r]: Study of the surface of the Earth and the activities of humanity upon it. ^[e]
• Germ theory of disease [r]: A theory that proposes that microorganisms are the cause of many diseases. ^[e]
• Health [r]: The default state of an organism under optimal conditions, a state characterized by the absence of disease and by the slowest natural rate of senescing. ^[e]
• Homeopathy [r]: System of alternative medicine involving administration of highly diluted substances with the intention to stimulate the body's natural healing processes, not considered proven by mainstream science. ^[e]
• Human geography [r]: The branch of geography that focuses on the systematic study of patterns and processes that shape human interaction with the environment. ^[e]
• Immunology [r]: The study of all aspects of the immune system in all animals. ^[e]
• Infectious disease [r]: In broad terms, diseases caused by living organisms; also a subspecialty of internal medicine concerned with the treatment of such diseases ^[e]
• Janet Napolitano [r]: United States Secretary of Homeland Security in the Obama Administration; former Governor of Arizona ^[e]
• John Snow (physician) [r]: (1813 – 1858) British physician who is considered to be one of the founders of epidemiology for his work identifying the source of a cholera outbreak in 1854; also one of the pioneers of anaesthesia and medical hygiene. ^[e]
• Library of Congress Classification [r]: Add brief definition or description
• Logistic regression [r]: Add brief definition or description
• Lung cancer [r]: Add brief definition or description
• Malaria [r]: Add brief definition or description
• Mashup [r]: Add brief definition or description
• Medical intelligence [r]: Add brief definition or description
• Michael Savage [r]: Add brief definition or description
• Microbiology [r]: Add brief definition or description
• Morbidity [r]: Add brief definition or description
• Overdiagnosis [r]: Add brief definition or description
• Pathogen [r]: Add brief definition or description
• Pathology [r]: Add brief definition or description
• Phrenology [r]: Add brief definition or description
• Plant extract [r]: Add brief definition or description
• Political opinion broadcasting [r]: Add brief definition or description
• Population [r]: Add brief definition or description
• Premature infants [r]: Add brief definition or description
• Prevalence [r]: Add brief definition or description
• Preventive medicine [r]: Add brief definition or description
• Prion [r]: Add brief definition or description
• Relative risk ratio [r]: Add brief definition or description
• Relative risk reduction [r]: Add brief definition or description
• Smallpox [r]: Add brief definition or description
• U.S. Department of Health and Human Services [r]: Add brief definition or description
• U.S. intelligence and global health [r]: Add brief definition or description
• Variola virus [r]: Add brief definition or description
• Vector (epidemiology) [r]: Add brief definition or description
• World Health Organization [r]: Add brief definition or description
• York [r]: Add brief definition or description