Epidemiology vs Vaccination - What's the difference?
epidemiology | vaccination |
(sciences) The branch of a science dealing with the spread and control of diseases, viruses, concepts etc. throughout populations or systems.
(sciences) The epidemiological body of knowledge about a particular thing.
Inoculation with a vaccine, in order to protect from a particular disease or strain of disease.
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As nouns the difference between epidemiology and vaccination
is that epidemiology is (sciences) the branch of a science dealing with the spread and control of diseases, viruses, concepts etc throughout populations or systems while vaccination is inoculation with a vaccine, in order to protect from a particular disease or strain of disease.epidemiology
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(wikipedia epidemiology)Noun
(-)Derived terms
* epidemiological, epidemiologic * epidemiologistSee also
* (wikipedia "epidemiology")vaccination
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(wikipedia vaccination)Noun
(-)It's a gas, passage=One of the hidden glories of Victorian engineering is proper drains. Isolating a city’s effluent and shipping it away in underground sewers has probably saved more lives than any medical procedure except vaccination .}}