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Introduction of Epidemiology. SUNPETCH ANGKITITRAKUL, Ph.D. สรรเพชญ อังกิติตระกูล. One World One Health. One World: Earth One Health: Humans, Animals, Environment Emerging Infectious Disease (EID) Avian Influenza (H5N1), SARS (Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome) Nipah virus
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Introduction of Epidemiology SUNPETCH ANGKITITRAKUL, Ph.D. สรรเพชญ อังกิติตระกูล
One World One Health • One World: Earth • One Health: Humans, Animals, Environment • Emerging Infectious Disease (EID) • Avian Influenza (H5N1), • SARS (Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome) • Nipah virus • Influenza A (H1N1)
Emerging Infectious Diseases • infectious diseases with an increasing in patient report over the past 20 years • infectious diseases with an increasing possibility in the near future • AIDS, Avian Influenza, and drug resistant tuberculosis • Antimicrobial resistant organisms
Re-emerging Infectious Diseases • infectious diseases that used to create outbreak in the past and subsided for a number of years but are occurred again • tuberculosis, hemorrhage fever and malaria
Factors of EID • Humans (Africa, Asia and Latin America) • Wildlife (Forest encroachment) • Climate change • Pathogens • Spread of pathogen (air or insect) • Virus (mutation)
Epidemiology • Epi = on, upon • Demos = people • Logos = knowledge
Historical of epidemiology • Hippocrates (400 BC) • John Graunt (1662) • John Snow (1854) • Out break of cholera occurred in a small area of central London (Golden Square)
What is Epidemiology? • The study of the distribution and determinants of health-related states or events in specified populations and the application of this study to the control of health problems (CDC)
What is Epidemiology? • focused on the health and disease status of a population • the study of how disease is distributed in populations and the factors that influence or determine this distribution
Epidemiology is a scientific discipline that involves the study of the frequency and distribution of health and disease in order to find risk factors in populations for prevention and control
Discipline: the general approach is to creating order and structure from incomplete knowledge Study: combines learning about epidemiology theory with on the job field application Frequency: means that we count characteristics in a population of people or animals Distribution: describes the patterns of disease in a population, in a particular place during a period of time
Health: refers to measures of optimum productivity due to lack of disease (meat, eggs or milk) Disease: refers generally to an imbalance in the health status of individuals or populations that result in decreased productivity, illness or death Population: refers to the group of individual animals or people that are considered or affected
Risk factors: risk is the probability that a factor the population is exposed to be associated with the occurrence of disease Prevent: means not providing the opportunity for a disease to occur Control: method to reduce the extent of disease in a population or area
Objective of Epidemiology • To identity the etiology (cause) of disease and the relevant risk factors • To determine the extent of disease found in the community • To study the natural history and prognosis of disease
Objective of Epidemiology • To evaluate both existing and newly developed preventive and therapeutic measure and modes of health care delivery • To provide the foundation for developing public policy relating to environmental problems
Use of Epidemiology • Describe the distribution of disease • Describe the natural history of disease • Identify factors that increase/decrease risk • Predict trends • Consider mechanisms of transmissions • Test efficacy & evaluate interventions • Identify health needs
Field Epidemiology • Field Epidemiology is the front line • There is health emergency or an immediate need to understand the health status of a population • Emerging Infectious Disease (EID): no information, very limited
Field Epidemiology • Attempts to gather and organize data to bring order and meaning to it • Can be applied to disease outbreaks, situation assessments and policy evaluation. • Relies on a systematic approach to gather and organize data in a way that will support a better understanding of a disease situation
Goal ofVeterinary field epidemiology • Prevention and control disease agents • Health of animals, humans and environment • Concepts and methods of epidemiology • Practical and information
Epidemiology approach • Try and understand what factors may be increasing or reducing the risk of disease • Promoting and protecting the health of animal and human populations
Endemic(โรคประจำถิ่น) • the constant occurrence of a disease that commonly presents in a particular place with stability in the level of infection • Sporadic: An irregular occurrence of a disease that commonly presents in a particular place
Endemicpattern Sporadic pattern
Epidemic(โรคระบาด) • the occurrence of a disease that the level of infection exceeds that normal expectancy in a specific region, spreads rapidly and usually lasts for a limited period of time • Pandemic: widespread epidemic that affects a large part of population in many countries • Epizootic: epidemic that involves animal host population
Disease outbreak • survey of disease data • count of cases • describe • person / animal • place • time
Epidemiology triad: explain why diseases occur in a population
Host Agent Environment Host Agent Host Agent Environment Environment
Host Agent Environment Host Agent Environment
Agents • Biological • Viruses Bacteria Parasites or prions • Chemical • Toxins • Man-made (Dioxins and melamine) • Inorganic/organic: zearalenone • Physical • Foreign bodies • Trauma • Radiation
Agent Factors • Dose • Environmental hardiness • Virulence (microbial) • Infectivity (microbial) • Toxicity (poisons)
Host • Natural host: • agent has adapted itself and co-exists in balance in the host • Atypical host: • agent is not normally encountered
Host • Demography • Age, Sex, Species, Breed • Production type / level, Density • Biology • Genetics, behavior • Management • Intensive (housing) / extensive (free roaming) • Nutrition • Hygiene • Husbandry • Vaccination / medication
Host • Marketing • Profitability related to prices (economics) • Distance from market • Herd immunity • Innate (genetic capability) • Acquired through vaccination or deliberate exposure • Proportion of total population that is resistant to a disease agent • Susceptibility • Lack of resistance to the disease agent
Host Factors • Innate resistance (e.g. gastric barrier, mucocilliary transport mechanism) • Previous exposure • Passive immune status (neonates) • Vaccination status and response • Age • Gender
Host Factors • Behavior (e.g. mutual grooming, dominance, pica) • Production status (e.g., lactating vs. non-lactating) • Reproductive status (e.g., pregnant vs. non-pregnant, sterile vs. intact) • Genetics
Environment • Natural environment • Geography • Climate • Season • pH • Ammonia concentration • Water activity • Ultraviolet light • Organic matter
2) Human aspects • Animal management systems • Marketing systems and economics • Government policies
Environmental Factors • Animal stocking density • Animal movement between groups • Housing (e.g. ventilation, sanitation) • Environmental conditions (e.g. temperature, humidity, wind velocity, precipitation) • Nutrition (protein, energy and macromineral and micromineral adequacy)
Example • Increased animal density may lead to increased microbial load in the environment • a roof may prevent exposure of microbe to killing UV • low ventilation • increase humidity • increases environmental survival of the organism • increases exposure dose and infects more animals. "Bovine mastitis is a disease of man with signs in the cow." "Bad management will overwhelm the best immunology."
Risk factors Death recover Normal Disease disabled Natural history of disease
Natural history of disease • Stage of susceptibility • Stage of preclinical disease • Stage of clinical disease • Stage of disability