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EPIDEMIOLOGYIntroduction and Disease
Transmission
Sue Lindsay, Ph.D., MSW, MPH
Division of Epidemiology and Biostatistics
Institute for Public Health
San Diego State University
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Epidemiology
The study of patterns of health, disease, and injury in
human populations and the application of this
study to the control of health problems
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ASPH Ten Epidemiology Competencies
Upon Graduation, a student with an MPH should be able to:
1. Identify key sources of data for epidemiologic purposes
2. Identify the principles and limitations of public health screening programs
3. Describe a public health problem in terms of magnitude, person, time, and place
4. Explain the importance of epidemiology for informing scientific, ethical, economic, and political discussions of health issues
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ASPH Ten Epidemiology Competencies
Upon Graduation, a student with an MPH should be able to:
5. Comprehend basic ethical and legal principles pertaining to the collection, maintenance, use, and dissemination of epidemiologic data.
6. Apply the basic terminology and definitions of epidemiology.
7. Calculate basic epidemiology measures.
8. Communicate epidemiologic information to lay and professional audiences.
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ASPH Ten Epidemiology Competencies
Upon Graduation, a student with an MPH should be able to:
9. Draw appropriate inferences from epidemiologic data.
10. Evaluate the strengths and limitations of epidemiologic reports.
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Underlying Assumptions
• Illness and disease are not randomly distributed
in human populations
• Each human being has characteristics that either
predispose toward illness, or protect from illness.
• These characteristics are identifiable and modifiable
• Communities and neighborhoods also have characteristics
that either predispose toward, or protect from illness.
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As Medical Detectives Epidemiologists Must Find:
• Who?
• What?
• Where?
• When?
• Why?
• How?
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The Five Objectives of Epidemiology
1. To identify the cause(s) of a disease and the risk factors for that disease.• How is the disease or condition transmitted or acquired? Are there
sub-groups of the population at high risk for the disease?
2. To determine the extent of the disease found in a community or population - surveillance
• What is the burden of the disease or condition?
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The Five Objectives of Epidemiology
3. To study the natural history and prognosis of the disease
• Severity, lethality, duration, survivorship
4. To evaluate existing and new preventive and therapeutic measures as well as modes of health care delivery
• Does screening for disease impact outcome?
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The Five Objectives of Epidemiology
5. To provide the foundation for developing public health policy and regulatory decisions
• How do environmental problems impact human health?
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Epidemiologic Areas of Study
• Observational Epidemiology
• Natural Experiments
• Experimental Epidemiology
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Historical Examples of Epidemiology in Practice
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The Story of Smallpox
• Major worldwide epidemic in the late 1700’s
• Known immunity from re-infection among survivors
• “Variolation”: early attempts at control were done by using infected smallpox pus and tissue to “variolate” healthy people
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The Story of Smallpox
• Dairy Maids - young women who milked cows got mild disease known as “Cowpox”
• During smallpox outbreaks, dairy maids did not develop smallpox
• Edward Jenner (born 1749), physician practicing in England believed cowpox could protect against smallpox
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The Story of Smallpox
• 1778: Jenner decides to test his hypothesis
• Innoculates an 8 year old “volunteer” James Phipps with cowpox material from a dairy maid
• Six weeks later Jenner exposes the boy to a smallpox infection
• Smallpox did not infect the boy
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The First Vaccination
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The Story of Cholera
• Cholera was a major public health problem in England in the mid-19th century
• First week of September 1854: 600 Deaths among people living near Broad Street in London
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The Story of Cholera
• John Farr, Registrar General
• John Farr believed the disease was transmitted by a cloud or “miasma” clinging low to the earth
• He hypothesized that greater altitude would be protective against cholera
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Deaths from Cholera in 10,000 Inhabitants by Elevation Above Sea
Level, London 1848-1849
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The Story of Cholera
• John Snow, physician to Queen Victoria
• Believed cholera was transmitted by contaminated water
• Public water companies transported water supply from polluted parts of the Thames River.
• The Lambeth Water Company moved their water intake upriver towards non-polluted water
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The Story of Cholera
• John Snow hypothesized that death rates would be lower in households buying water from the Lambeth Company
• 1854: Conducted a house to house survey
• Number of deaths/household
• Water company that supplied the household
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Deaths From Cholera Per 10,000 Houses By Source of
Water Supply
WaterSupply
No ofHouses
DeathsFrom
Cholera
Deaths per10,000
Houses
Southwark 40,046 1,263 315
Lambeth 26,107 98 38
Other 256,423 1,422 56
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Deaths From Cholera Per 10,000 Houses By Source of Water Supply
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1952
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Overweight and Obesity1960-2000
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The Epidemiologic Approach
• How does the epidemiologist identify public health problems and design interventions?
• Frequency of health and disease
• Patterns of disease by age
• Patterns of disease by geography
• Patterns of disease by race/ethnicity
• Patterns of disease by gender
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Frequency of Health and DiseaseTen Leading Causes of Death in the United States,
1900 and 1997
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Patterns of Disease by AgeLife Expectancy At Birth and Age 65, By Race and Sex,
United States, 1900, 1950, 1996
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Patterns of Disease by Geography
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Adult/Adolescent AIDS Rates per 100,000 White Population
Reported in 1999
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Adult/Adolescent AIDS Rates per 100,000 Black Population
Reported in 1999
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Adult/Adolescent AIDS Rates per 100,000 Hispanic Population
Reported in 1999 15.3
21.9
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Proportion of AIDS Cases, by Race/Ethnicity and Year of Report,1985-1999, United States
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AIDS Cases Reported in 1999 and Estimated 1999 Population, by Race/Ethnicity, United States
White, not HispanicBlack, not HispanicHispanic
Asian/Pacific IslanderAmerican Indian/ Alaska Native
*Includes 120 persons with unknown race/ethnicity
4%1%
71%
12%13%
AIDS Cases N=46,400*
PopulationN=277,200,000
<1%1%
32%
47%19%
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Noteworthy Examples of Epidemiologic Investigations
• Tampons and Toxic Shock Syndrome
• Legonnaire’s Disease
• Low Level Ionizing Radiation and Leukemia
• Hormone replacement therapy and heart attack, stroke, blood clots, breast cancer, reduced risk of colorectal cancer
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Noteworthy Examples of Epidemiologic Investigations
• Passive Smoking
• Agent Orange
• Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndrome (AIDS)
• The Effect of DES on Off-Spring
• Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome (SARS)
Asia 2003, 12+ countries, 8,098 sick, 774 died
• Avian Influenza (Bird Flu)
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Disease Transmission
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The Epidemiologic Triad
Host
Agent Environment
Vector
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An Example of The Epidemiologic Triad
Host (Person)
Agent
(Bacterium)
Environment
(Contaminated Water)Vector
(Mosquito)
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Factors Which Influence Health and Disease in Humans
• Biological
• Physical
• Chemical and Environmental
• Genetics
• Nutrition
• Immunology
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Host Characteristics
• Age
• Sex
• Race
• Occupation
• Religion
• Customs
• Family Background
• Previous Diseases
• Immune Status
• Genetic Profile
• Marital Status
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Types of Agents
• Biologic
Bacteria, Virus
• Chemical
Poison, Alcohol,Smoke
• Physical
Trauma, Radiation, Fire
• Nutrition
Diet, Low / Excess Caloric Intake
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Environmental Factors
• Temperature
• Humidity
• Altitude
• Crowding
• Housing
• Neighborhoods
• Violence
• Water
• Milk
• Food
• Radiation
• Air Pollution
• Noise
• Public health infrastructure
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Modes of Disease Transmission
• Direct: Person to Person Contact
• Indirect: • Vehicle borne• Vector borne • Single exposure•Multiple exposures•Continuous exposure
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Body Surfaces as Sites of Infection
• Mouth
• Respiratory Tract
• Alimentary Tract
Skin •
•Urinogenital Tract
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The Iceberg Concept of Infectious Diseases
Asymptomatic Infection
Exposure Without Infection
Viral/Bacterial Transformation
Exposure Without Cell Entry
Cell transformation/ dysfunction Moderate/Severe Illness
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Patterns of Disease
• Epidemic disease
• Endemic disease
• Pandemic disease
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Epidemic Disease
• The occurrence of disease in a community or region, clearly in excess of normal expectations and derived from a common or propagated source
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Tuberculosis: Frequency Distribution of Cases by Age in Minorities, United
States
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Endemic Disease
• The habitual presence of a disease within a given geographic area
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Malaria
• WHO estimates 300-500 million existing cases per year worldwide
• >90% of all cases occur in Sub-Saharan Africa
• Malaria is endemic in 101 countries reporting to the WHO
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Pandemic: Worldwide Epidemic
• Three essential conditions for pandemics:
• A new infectious agent such that humans have no natural immunity
• Agent must evolve to be capable of infecting and killing humans efficiently
• Agent must succeed in being transferred from human to human
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World Health Organization (WHO)Six Influenza Pandemic Phases
• Phase 1
• No viruses circulating among animals have infected humans
• An animal influenza virus has caused infection in humans
• Small clusters of disease in people. No human-to-human transmission sufficient to sustain community-level outbreaks.
• Phase 2
• Phase 3
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World Health Organization (WHO)Six Influenza Pandemic Phases
• Phase 4
• Human-to-human transmission able to cause sustained community-level outbreaks.
• Human-to-human transmission into at least two countries in one WHO region. A global pandemic is imminent.
• Community level outbreaks in one other country in a different WHO region. A global pandemic is underway.
• Phase 5
• Phase 6
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WHO Pandemic Phases
http://www.who.int/csr/disease/avian_influenza/phase/en/index.html
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HIV/AIDS
• Worldwide epidemic
• No country is exempt
• WHO Estimates >42 million infected since the pandemic onset
• Each day, >16,000 newly infected cases worldwide
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Herd Immunity
• The resistance of a group of people
to an attack by a disease because a
large proportionof the group members
are immune
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Why Does Herd Immunity Work?
• A large proportion of immune persons in a population decreases the likelihood that any one person with disease will come into contact with susceptible individuals
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Characteristics of Herd Immunity
• If a large percent of the population is immune, the entire population is protected
• Infected persons are unlikely to contact susceptible persons
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Herd Immunity in Public Health
• The success of immunization programs depends on both immunization rates and achieving herd immunity
• It may not be necessary to achieve 100% immunization rates
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Conditions for Herd Immunity
• Disease agent must be restricted to single host species
• Transmission must be direct from one member of host species to another