Disease Tracking & Epidemiology

Epidemiology is the study of the distribution and determinants of health problems in specified populations and applying the learned information to control the health problems. It is the scientific method of problem solving used by "disease detectives"-epidemiologists, laboratory scientists, statisticians, physicians and other health care providers, and public health professionals to get to the root of health problems in a community, whether the problem is a measles outbreak on a small college campus or a global influenza pandemic, an increase in suicide in a single community, a surge in violence, or a localized or widespread rise in cancer.