HaDPop Flashcards

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Census

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The simultaneous recording of demographic data by a government of all persons in a defined area.

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Incidence

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Incidence: no. new cases of disease per 1000 people per year

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Prevalence

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Prevalence: no. existing cases of a disease in a set population

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4
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Crude Birth Rate

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no live births per 1000 population

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5
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General fertility rate

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no live births per 1000 women ages 15-44 in the population

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Total period fertility rate

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average no children per average woman in her lifetime

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crude death rate

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No deaths per 1000 population

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Age specific death rate

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Deaths per 1000 in each age group

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Standardised mortality ratio

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compare observed and expected deaths in 2 populations with identical age/sex distributions

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Confounder

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Confounder: something that is associated with both outcome and exposure of interest but is not on the causal pathway.

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95% CI

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95% CI: range in which we are 95% certain that the true value lies, based on observed data

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P value

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P value: a measure of how likely it is that the results are due to chance if the null hypothesis is true.

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