Chapter 7: Flashcards
What is a case series study?
describe a group of individuals with a disease
What is a cross-sectional study?
describe an exposure or disease status in a population
What is a case control study?
compare exposure histories in people with a disease and people without
What is a cohort study?
compare rates of new disease in people with different exposure histories or follow a population forward in time
what is an experimental study?
compare outcomes in participants assigned to an intervention or control group
what is a qualitative study?
seek to understand how individuals and communities perceive and make sense of the world and their experiences
what is a correlations study?
compare average levels of exposure and disease in several populations
what is a review/meta - analysis?
synthesize existing knowledge
What is primary?
collect new data from individuals
what is secondary?
analyze existing data
what is tertiary?
review and synthesize the existing literature
What is an observational study?
Does not intentionally expose any participants to an intervention or ask any participants to change their behaviors
What is the experimental study?
assigns participants to receive a particular exposure
What is descriptive epidemiology?
quantify how often various health-related exposures and outcomes occur in a population
What is analytic epidemiology?
Identify risk factors for various adverse health outcomes or to test the effectiveness of interventions intended to improves health status
