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epidemiology

study of the patterns, causes, and effects of health and disease conditions
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Summary

epidemiology is a branch of science[1]. epidemiology draws 18,262 Wikipedia views per month (branch of science category, ranking #20 of 193).[2]

Key Facts

  • Subclass of: health sciences[3]
  • Commons category: Epidemiology[4]
  • Topic's main category: Category:Epidemiology[5]
  • Described by source: Small Brockhaus and Efron Encyclopedic Dictionary[6], Small Soviet Encyclopedia[7]
  • NCI Thesaurus ID: C16556[8]
  • Is the study of: epidemic[9], pandemic[10]
  • Practiced by: epidemiologist[11]
  • On focus list of Wikimedia project: WikiProject COVID-19[12]
  • P10203: 2713[13]

Why It Matters

epidemiology has Wikipedia articles in 30 language editions, a strong signal of global cultural recognition.[14] epidemiology is known by 44 alternative names across languages and contexts.[15]

Related Entities

computational epidemiology Francis H. Roger-France Gamaleya Research Institute of Epidemiology and Microbiology Germans Trias i Pujol Research Institute Girona Biomedical Research Institute Harold G. Ostrow health sciences Hospital del Mar Medical Research Institute infodemiology Institut de Recerca Sant Pau Institute for Epidemiology (Kiel) IrsiCaixa Jonas Salk Markus Löffler Nikolay Gamaleya Ronald Ross Saint-Pierre-Canivet Vall d'Hebron Research Institute

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Direct Wikidata claims

  1. [3] ↑ . wikidata.org.
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  11. [13] ↑ . All Science Journal Classification Codes. Retrieved . wikidata.org.

Class ancestry

  1. [1] ↑ . Wikidata. wikidata.org.

Aggregate / graph-position facts

  1. [2] ↑ . Wikimedia Foundation. dumps.wikimedia.org.
  2. [14] ↑ . Wikidata sitelinks. wikidata.org.
  3. [15] ↑ . Wikidata aliases. wikidata.org.

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Edit History

Rolling log of changes to this entity's Wikidata record. Values shown reflect the current state of each edited property — follow the history link to see the precise diff for any edit.

  1. 1d ago · عُثمان · 2026-10-13 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Gsso id → 008366
    Sitelink count → 91
    Wikipedia languages → ['af', 'ar', 'arz', 'az', 'bcl', 'be', 'be_x_old', 'bg', 'bn', 'bs', 'ca', 'cs',
    Harper's tag → epidemiology
    + 1 other property edited (see Wikidata diff for full list)
    "/* wbsetclaim-create:1||1 */ Gsso id: 008366, Matched to [[:toollabs:mix-n-match/#/entry/157145122|epidemiology (#157145122)]] in [[:toollabs:mix-n-match/#/catalog/6077|Gender, Sex, and Sex"
  2. 17w ago · Jindřich Rubeš · 2026-06-12 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Svkkl authority id → h0002572-epidemiologie
    "/* wbcreateclaim-create:1| */ Svkkl authority id: h0002572-epidemiologie, [[:toollabs:quickstatements/#/batch/259492|batch #259492]]"
  3. 21w ago · Twofivesixbot bot · 2026-05-17 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Practiced by → epidemiologist
    Aliases → —
    Factgrid item id → GM HydroGen3
    Is the study of → epidemic, pandemic
    + 8 other properties edited (see Wikidata diff for full list)
    "/* wbsetclaim-update-qualifiers:1||1|4 */ Yso id: 11307, mv to monolingual text names on YSO statements"
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