Health topics
Epidemiology
Epidemiology is the study of the distribution and determinants of health-related states or events (including disease), and the application of this study to the control of diseases and other health problems. Various methods can be used to carry out epidemiological investigations: surveillance and descriptive studies can be used to study distribution; analytical studies are used to study determinants.
Related sites
- Global Health Observatory
- World health statistics 2010
- Health statistics and health information systems
- Global burden of disease
- Global health atlas
- WHO Global InfoBase: health statistics on chronic disease
- Health Metrics Network
- World Health Survey
- Global Foodborne Infections Network (GFN)
- STEPwise approach to surveillance (STEPS)
- Global Alert and Response (GAR)
- Weekly Epidemiological Record
- Integrated disease surveillance (African Region)