Epidemiology is the study of the patterns, causes, and effects of health and disease within defined populations, serving as the foundational science of public health and providing the evidence base for prevention and control. It characterises disease by person, place, and time, quantifies occurrence through incidenc…
Epidemiology is the study of the patterns, causes, and effects of health and disease within defined populations, serving as the foundational science of public health and providing the evidence base for prevention and control. It characterises disease by person, place, and time, quantifies occurrence through incidence and prevalence, and identifies risk and protective factors using observational and experimental designs while guarding against bias, confounding, and chance. Beyond infectious-disease surveillance and outbreak investigation, the discipline informs the planning and evaluation of health services, including the assessment of need and the targeting of interventions across the continuum of care. The studies gathered here span infectious and chronic disease: the histopathological pattern and distribution of thyroid disease in a hospital cohort, the epidemiology and management of seasonal influenza outbreaks in long-term care facilities, multi-year retrospective analyses of syphilis trends and comorbidities, malaria and typhoid coinfection, and the role of human papillomavirus in carcinogenesis. Further work develops a roadmap for population-based colorectal cancer screening, reviews narcolepsy in the pediatric population, examines ovine fasciolosis, and reports knowledge, attitude, and practice surveys on antiretroviral pre-exposure prophylaxis. Together these reflect epidemiology's reach across conditions and settings relevant to population and clinical health. The journal publishes peer-reviewed epidemiological and population-health research.
12 peer-reviewed articles, ranked by relevance. Each links to its DOI.
The 12 articles above have been cited 38 times in the scholarly literature. Citation data via OpenAlex and Crossref, updated Jun 2026.
A sample of recent works citing this journal's research on Epidemiology, linking to each citing work.