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Diploma in Public Health
Epidemiology Lecture Notes: Disease Frequency, the Stages of Disease, Levels of Prevention and Public Health Surveillance
Epidemiology class notes from the Siaya campus September 2019 intake that open with the Greek roots of the term and the standard definition, then take the uses and achievements of epidemiology, the measures of disease frequency and the stages of disease from susceptibility through presymptomatic and clinical disease to diminished capacity. The levels of prevention run from primordial through primary and secondary to tertiary, and the notes close on public health surveillance, field investigation, linkages and policy formulation.
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