- Title Pages
- Disclaimer
- Dedication
- Preface
- Acknowledgments
- About the Editors
- Contributors
- 1 Defining Field Epidemiology
- 2 Initiating Operations
- 3 Conducting a Field Investigation
- 4 Collecting Data
- 5 Using Technologies for Data Collection and Management
- 6 Describing Epidemiologic Data
- 7 Designing and Conducting Analytic Studies in the Field
- 8 Analyzing and Interpreting Data
- 9 Optimizing Epidemiology–Laboratory Collaborations
- 10 Collecting and Analyzing Qualitative Data
- 11 Developing Interventions
- 12 Communicating During an Outbreak or Public Health Investigation
- 13 Legal Considerations
- 14 Coordination of Multiple States and Federal Agencies
- 15 Multinational Outbreak Investigations
- 16 Emergency Operations Centers and Incident Management Structure
- 17 Geographic Information System Data
- 18 Healthcare Settings
- 19 Community Congregate Settings
- 20 Exposures and Conditions of Acute Environmental Origin
- 21 Occupational Disease and Injury
- 22 Natural and Human-Made Disasters
- 23 Acute Enteric Disease Outbreaks
- 24 Suspected Intentional Use of Biologic and Toxic Agents
- 25 Suicide, Violence, and Other Forms of Injury
- Index
Describing Epidemiologic Data
Describing Epidemiologic Data
- Chapter:
- (p.105) 6 Describing Epidemiologic Data
- Source:
- The CDC Field Epidemiology Manual
- Author(s):
Robert E. Fontaine
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
Descriptive epidemiology is a systematic organization of reliable data to sharpen understanding of health problems. It addresses the five questions of what (the health condition), how much (counts, rates, and averages), when (time), where (place), and among whom (person). The field epidemiologist organizes these data into tables, graphs, maps, charts, and other displays to reveal patterns of a health problem by these five questions.
Keywords: descriptive epidemiology, epidemiologic curve, rates, ratios, case counts, tables, secular trends, spot maps, patch maps, geographic distributions, personal attributes
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- Title Pages
- Disclaimer
- Dedication
- Preface
- Acknowledgments
- About the Editors
- Contributors
- 1 Defining Field Epidemiology
- 2 Initiating Operations
- 3 Conducting a Field Investigation
- 4 Collecting Data
- 5 Using Technologies for Data Collection and Management
- 6 Describing Epidemiologic Data
- 7 Designing and Conducting Analytic Studies in the Field
- 8 Analyzing and Interpreting Data
- 9 Optimizing Epidemiology–Laboratory Collaborations
- 10 Collecting and Analyzing Qualitative Data
- 11 Developing Interventions
- 12 Communicating During an Outbreak or Public Health Investigation
- 13 Legal Considerations
- 14 Coordination of Multiple States and Federal Agencies
- 15 Multinational Outbreak Investigations
- 16 Emergency Operations Centers and Incident Management Structure
- 17 Geographic Information System Data
- 18 Healthcare Settings
- 19 Community Congregate Settings
- 20 Exposures and Conditions of Acute Environmental Origin
- 21 Occupational Disease and Injury
- 22 Natural and Human-Made Disasters
- 23 Acute Enteric Disease Outbreaks
- 24 Suspected Intentional Use of Biologic and Toxic Agents
- 25 Suicide, Violence, and Other Forms of Injury
- Index
