Intro To Epidemiology

Question 1

What are the 3 domains of public health?

Answer 1

Health improvement
Health protection
Healthcare (public health)

Question 2

What is descriptive epidemiology?

Answer 2

Sampling that infers back to the population
Can generate a hypothesis about the patterns and causes of disease

Rarely achieve a perfect sample

Question 3

What do you want a sample to be?

Answer 3

Representative
Unbiased
Precise

Question 4

What is analytical epidemiology?

Answer 4

Compares like for like samples

Can rarely achieve this

Question 5

What are the key points to conducting a study?

Answer 5

Identify the groups
Define characteristics want to study
Decide on analysis (categorical or continuous)
Gather data

Question 6

What are specific issue for ecological studies?

Answer 6

Defining characteristics
Measurements of variation
Confounding factors
Chance

Question 7

How is a study described?

Answer 7

P (population studied)
I (intervention or exposure of interest)
C (comparison or control of interest)
O (outcome of interest)