noun
- the study of the patterns, causes, and effects of health and disease conditions in defined populations
Usage: medical/scientific field
Examples
- She earned her doctorate in epidemiology to study infectious diseases.
- Epidemiology helps us understand how diseases spread through communities.
- The epidemiology of heart disease shows higher rates in certain age groups.
- Public health officials use epidemiology to track disease outbreaks.
- Cancer epidemiology examines environmental and genetic risk factors.
- The epidemiology department published findings on vaccine effectiveness.