Question

Epidemiology draws from other fields such as biostatistic and social sciences. From which aspects of other disciplines does Epidemiology borrow from? and in what way does it differ to those disciplines?

Answer 1

Epidemiology is a scientific study of public health, the causes and factors that effect public health and the ways to deal with the issues of public health.

To make a scientific enquiry of public health epidemiology needs the methods of observation, experiments and other methods of statistics along with the methods of computation of information or data of Statistics.

Epidemiology also requires an in-depth knowledge of principles of biology,physics,chemistry ,the various branches of natural sciences to understand the aspects of various health conditions and issues of public. Because epidemiology deals with public health the social, behavioral and economic aspects of health are necessary to study the impact and causes of the health conditions, and applying for prevention and cure.

Thus, epidemiology uses the concepts and principles of statistics, natural sciences and social sciences for studying various aspects of public health and to establish the cause-effect relationship in public health. This helps Epidemiology to suggest and take measures to deal with these public health issues. This approach of Epidemiology makes it different from the disciplines of natural and social science.