CAUSE AND EFFECT

Question 1

why’s it important to know the cause of a disease?

Answer 1

so you are able to prevent the disease happening in the first place and to improve the treatment

Question 2

what is falsifiability?

Answer 2

we can’t prove a theory true, only false. A conclusion can be undone after any of its fundamental claims is disproved.

Question 3

what are WEIRD populations?

Answer 3

Western, educated, industrialized, rich and democratic populations
they represent over 80% of study populations but only 12% of the worlds population

Question 4

what is a confounding variable?

Answer 4

a variable not accounted for e.g. 2 factors are not directly associated but are linked by a 3rd factor

Question 5

what are the 9 Bradford Hill Criteria?

Answer 5

strength of association
temporal association
consistency
theoretical plausibility
coherence
specificity
dose-response relationship
experimental evidence
analogy

Question 6

what are the Bradford Hill criteria for?

Answer 6

group of nine principles that can be useful in establishing epidemiologic evidence of a causal relationship between a presumed cause and an observed effect