{"id":21392,"date":"2023-06-05T11:23:25","date_gmt":"2023-06-05T11:23:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.goodacademic.com\/blog\/questions\/epidemic-pandemic-disease-causes-characteristics-effects-diagnosis-management-prevention\/"},"modified":"2023-06-05T11:23:25","modified_gmt":"2023-06-05T11:23:25","slug":"epidemic-pandemic-disease-causes-characteristics-effects-diagnosis-management-prevention","status":"publish","type":"questions","link":"https:\/\/www.goodacademic.com\/blog\/questions\/epidemic-pandemic-disease-causes-characteristics-effects-diagnosis-management-prevention\/","title":{"rendered":"Epidemic & pandemic disease: causes, characteristics, effects, diagnosis, management & prevention"},"content":{"rendered":"
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\u00a8     <\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span>report to be of 4000 words in length (+\/- 5%: thus 3800 – 4200; this <\/span>excludes<\/b> <\/span>figure legends and references)<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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\u00a8     <\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span>to be referenced (text and figures) \u2013 use Vancouver system <\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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\u00a8     <\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span>use diagrams, graphs, charts, photos and other graphics whenever relevant and informative (at least 15)<\/span><\/p>\n


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\u00a8     <\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span>seeking to explore specific disease processes that can produce epi\/pandemic disease \u2013 e.g. infectious diseases, \u2018behavioural\u2019 diseases (e.g. harmful use of alcohol & other drugs of abuse, obesity);<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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\u00a8     <\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span>examining specific epi\/pandemic events in detail \u2013 effects on individual patient and wider effects (see below);<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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\u00a8     <\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span>also looking to examine societal, economic, medical (e.g. treatment, public health and health policy) consequences \u2013 both with regard to specific epi\/pandemics and throughout history;<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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\u00a8     <\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span>what can be learnt and put in place to minimize the risk of further epi\/pandemics \u2013 medically, politically, societally?<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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Suggested structure<\/span><\/b>:             <\/span><\/span>~500-750 words for general introduction to\/overview of subject, <\/span>                                                                         <\/span><\/span>incl background and any relevant historical material;<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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                        <\/span><\/span>~2500-3000 words for main section \u2013 examining two specific <\/span>                                                        <\/span><\/span><\/span>epi\/pandemics in detail (These should be of different <\/span>                                                                   <\/span><\/span>causations \u2013 e.g. viral, bacterial, fungal, protozoal, <\/span>                                                                 <\/span><\/span>behaviourial.);<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

                        <\/span><\/span>~500-750 words for conclusion \u2013 summary and looking to <\/span>                                                                          <\/span><\/span>the future (e.g. lessons learned; prospects \u2013 esp for clinical <\/span>                                                   <\/span><\/span>medicine)<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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N.B. these figures are not hard and fast \u2013 just suggestions to <\/span>      <\/span><\/span>generate a comprehensive report covering the subject in both <\/span>          <\/span><\/span>overview and detail. Only the overall word count will be noted.<\/span><\/i><\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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\u00a8     report to be of 4000 words in length (+\/- 5%: thus 3800 – 4200; this excludes figure legends and references)   \u00a8     to be referenced (text and figures) \u2013 use Vancouver system    \u00a8     use diagrams, graphs, charts, photos and other graphics whenever relevant and informative (at least 15) Specific information:   \u00a8     seeking to explore specific disease processes that […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":[],"disciplines":[1105],"paper_types":[],"tagged":[],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.goodacademic.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/questions\/21392"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.goodacademic.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/questions"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.goodacademic.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/questions"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.goodacademic.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.goodacademic.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=21392"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.goodacademic.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/questions\/21392\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.goodacademic.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=21392"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"disciplines","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.goodacademic.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/disciplines?post=21392"},{"taxonomy":"paper_types","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.goodacademic.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/paper_types?post=21392"},{"taxonomy":"tagged","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.goodacademic.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tagged?post=21392"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}