Tayyaba Shehzadi
3 min readJun 22, 2024

Public Health and Epidemiology

Sure! Here are some specific topics within the field of Public Health and Epidemiology: The mentioned specialization refers to a specific branch of knowledge and includes the following specific topics:

Public Health

Health Promotion and Disease Prevention: Measures required to enhance the positive thinking and healthy living standards of the population hence eradicating chronic diseases.

Global Health Initiatives: AfriMaps_Folders─Health──Clipboard─General Vision─: Concepts, strategies, steps, and plans that would result in an improved standard of health among human beings all over the world.

Health Disparities and Equity: Equality is the tool to pay attention to equal opportunity the opportunities to receive proper health care and the quality of the allowed services for people with different gender, race, and other characteristics.

Mental Health in Public Health: The integration of mental health to the various approaches used by public health care systems.

Public Health Policy and Administration: Relationship between health policies and the planning and evaluation of plans and policies formulated and implemented concurrently with it.

Community Health: Community activities that create awareness of the health status of the people, and participate in community health initiatives.

Health Education and Communication: Methods used in the formulation of procedures that can be utilized to encourage society to embrace healthy practices.

Environmental Health: Impact of pollutants, which are climate changes and health risks associated with handling as well as working with different products and many more.

Nutrition and Public Health: Appreciation of the significance of diet and nutrition as factors that can either prevent or cause certain diseases.

Maternal and Child Health: USING THE DOMINANT PARADIGM OF THE GOVERNMENT AND OTHER PUBLIC HEALTH STAKEHOLDERS, I HAVE IDENTIFIED

SOME OF THE MEASURES THAT HAVE BEEN TAKEN IN ADDRESSING THE MATERNAL AND CHILD HEALTH.

Epidemiology

Epidemiology of Infectious Diseases: A type of research focusing on diseases and their findings regarding and in populations or other community divisions.

Chronic Disease Epidemiology: Medical conditions that may be attributed to sociological factors such as diabetes, cardiac conditions, and cancer among them.

Epidemiologic Methods: This is a conceptual overlap since the course includes topic areas such as study designs, used when conducting epidemiological research or available statistical analysis techniques that may be used on collected data.

Outbreak Investigation: Measures of disease surveillance and practice regarding efforts toward curtailing the further spread of the disease.

Surveillance Systems: Travel restrictions, enforcement of health protocols, social distancing measures, and other such techniques that are uttilized to contain the further spread of diseases.

Vaccine Epidemiology: Vacciniology includes all research on topics about the efficacy safety, and prevention of diseases through vaccines.

Molecular Epidemiology: Refreshing molecular biology in the determination of the disease etiology and pathogenesis.

Behavioural Epidemiology: Ensouring knowledge of the behaviour and its impact on the progression of the disease.

Nutritional Epidemiology: Research that has some relevance on what one should eat or cannot eat for the betterment of his/her health.

Environmental and Occupational Epidemiology: Understanding of factors in the environment and at work that play proactive roles in putting up or tearing down one’s health.

These topics include population and disease-related topics or inquiries, research methodologies, and design of public health and epidemiology, among others; which makes it appropriate for research and importation of enhanced standards of health among the population.

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