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What kinds of epidemiologic measurements/data do you collect/use in order to describe disease/injury occurrence in your work or in your everyday life? What kinds of epidemiologic measurements/data do you collect/use in order to describe exposure levels/risk factors in your work or in your everyday life? Do you use counts, percentages, proportions, rates, and/or ratios? Do you use prevalence, incidence, and/or incidence rate? How do you present the data? Do you use frequency tables, bar charts, histograms, pie charts, and/or line graphs? Give specific examples/use cases

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This solution discusses kinds of epidemiological measurements/data used to collect/use in order to describe exposure levels/risk factors in everyday life. Further explains the use of counts, percentages, proportions, rates, and/or ratios. Then considers prevalence, incidence, and/or incidence rate, way of presenting data with specific examples/use cases.

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In a main epidemiological model, three things are considered, Susceptible (S), Infectious (I), Recovery (R).
We will use counts of SIR to determine the incidence rate or infectious rate. We need to determine prevalence, incidence and incidence rate
to estimate rate of administering treatment to prevent disease escalation.

Percentage will be used to determine summarise the number, may be in different areas and recovery rate.
Proportions ...

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