A REVIEW ON THE GENERAL AWARENESS OF CANDIDA INFECTION AMONGST FIJI POPULATION
Abstract
Epidemiology originates from Hippocrates’ observation more than 2000 years ago that environmental factors influence the occurrence of disease. However, it was not until the nineteenth century that the distribution of disease in specific human population groups was measured to any large extent. This work marked not only the formal beginnings of epidemiology but also some of its most spectacular achievements. The finding by John Snow (Box 1.1) that the risk of cholera in London was related to the drinking of water supplied by a particular company provides a well-known example; the map (see Figure 4.1) highlights the clustering of cases. Snow’s epidemiological studies were one aspect of a wide-ranging series of investigations that examined related physical, chemical, biological, sociological and political processes.References
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