What are the differences between epidemiology and clinical medicine?
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Epidemiology:
1. Focus on the group (community population).
2. Use quantitative tools for community diagnosis.
3. Take into account all factors which cause diseases.
4. Can form assumptions and hypotheses.
5. Help in public health policy formulation.
6. Quantitative and qualitative science.
7. Can identify the souse or source of the outbreak.
8. Basic prevention: Primary.
9. Observation.
Clinical Medicine:
1. Focus on an individual (hospital, clinic, etc).
2. Use lab tools for individual diagnosis.
3. Does not take other factors into account.
4. Dose not form an assumption.
5. Can form treatment individual diagram.
6. Not a qualitative science.
7. Can evolute methods.
8. Basic prevention: Secondary and tertiary.
9. Experimental.