Lecture 3- types of epidemiology studies

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What does study design depend on

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What are the 2 categories of studies

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What is hypothesis generating

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What questions do descriptive studies address

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where do we get data from

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what countries have much more thorough and detailed info available

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what do A lot of studies also now collect info on

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What is included on census info

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what are the sources of data for disease notification

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what is record linkage

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what are the Other sources of routine data and what are the examples

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what does poor data lead to

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what questions must we consider to prevent flawed understanding

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what type of study is descriptive

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what is an ecological study and what is the advantage

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what are the types of ecological studies

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why do ecological studies use a correlation coefficient

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what is the r

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what are the advantages of ecological studies

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what is the disadvantages of ecological studies

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what are cross sectional studies

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what are cross sectional studies also known as

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what are the advantages of cross-sectional studies

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what are the disadvantages of cross sectionals studies

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what does every epidemiology study have

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what Is case control

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Compares a group who have a disease (cases) with an otherwise similar group who do not (controls). One observation point: cases + controls are selected + data are collected about past exposures

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what is a cohort

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All subjects are followed-up over a period of time (years), during which some go on to develop disease .The rate of development of disease is then compared between the exposed and non-exposed sub-groups. Enables identifications of association between disease incidence and exposure

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what is a randomised control trial

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Involves intervention or experimentation by changing one variable (exposure) in one or more groups and measure disease/health outcomes in the groups

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What are resident populations

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what effects resident populations

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how do we calculate death rate

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what does it mean if the death rates are similar