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Epidemiology has been called “____”

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population medicine

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______: the study of the distribution and determinants of health related states or events in specified populations, and the app. of this study to control health probs

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epidemiology

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_____: dx that occur regularly in a pop as a matter of course (always there)

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endemic dx

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_____: an unexpectedly large number of cases in an illness in a particular pop

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epidemic