Epidemiology Flashcards
[Study design type]
used for rare disease
case-control
[Study design type]
has a stronger evidence for causality
cohort
[Study design type]
prone to selection bias
cross-sectional
[Study design type]
compare proportion of cases with exposure (risk factor) with proportion of controls
case-control
[Study design type]
compare proportion of disease group with risk factor with proportion of non-diseased group with risk factor
cross sectional
[Disability]
loss or abnormality of psychological or anatomical structure or function
impairment
[Disability]
any restriction or lack of ability to perform an activity in the manner or within the range considered normal for a human being
disability
refers to the function of the individual
[Disability]
disadvantage for a given individual resulting from an impairment or disability
handicap
[Epidemiological
approach]
concerned with disease distribution and frequency
descriptive epidemiology
[Epidemiological approach]
analyzes the causes or determinants of disease by testing hypothesis
analytical epidemiology
[Epidemiological approach]
effectiveness of new methods for conrolling diseases
intervention or experimental
[Epidemiological approach]
measure the effectiveness of different health services and program
evaluation epidemiology
What is the alternate name of correlational study
ecological
what is the alternate name for cross sectional study?
prevalence study
What is the alternate name for case control study?
case reference
What is the inferential statistics used for case control studies
odds ratio
What is the inferential statistics used for cohort studies?
relative risk
Study design that answers
“what is happening”
Cross sectional
Study design that answers
“what happened?”
case control
Study design that answers
“who will develop the disease
cohort
What is the gold standard or reference in medicine (type of study design)
RCT
