Concept information
Preferred term
epidemiologist
Definition
- An epidemiologist is someone who studies diseases in populations in order to attribute factors that may be associated with a specific disease or a set of diseases with the end goal of finding methods of prevention and/or harm reduction. Epidemiologists may collect and analyze data attributed to an outcome of interest or use previously collected data, such as hospital records, in order to achieve their goals. [Source: Encyclopedia of Global Health; Epidemiologist]
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URI
https://concepts.sagepub.com/social-science/concept/epidemiologist
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