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Epidemiology in Practice

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Global health - Infectious disease/AIDS - history and progression
Identify the current burden of in...,
List the six commonest infectious...,
Define incidence
15  cards
Why evidence based medicine
Why does ebm matter to clinicians,
What are possible explanations fo...,
What is chance coincidence
26  cards
Non infectious disease - cancer and cardiovascular disease
Explain the concept of epidemiolo...,
Why is the epidemiological transi...,
What are the most commonly diagno...
21  cards
Cornerstones of epidemiology: Observational studies and routine data
What is the hierarchy of study de...,
What do descriptive studies in ep...,
What is routine data
10  cards
Clinical Trials
What occurs in phase i,
What occurs in phase ii,
What occurs in phase iii
19  cards
Key challenges to medicine
What are the three aims in medicine,
What are the three changes major ...,
Challenges to medicine burden of ...
10  cards
Understanding and appraising evidence
Define prevalence,
What needs to be considered when ...,
What is relative risk
3  cards
Tools of the trade
What is null hypothesis,
What is p value,
95 confidence interval
33  cards
Systematic reviews and meta analysis
What is a systematic review,
What is a meta analysis,
Why conduct systematic reviews
19  cards
Screening
What is screening,
What is the purpose of screening,
What is a screening test
28  cards
Introduction to critical appraisal and how to read published papers
Critical appraisal checklist
1  cards
Critical appraisal of medical evidence
What are the criticisms of eviden...,
Define critical appraisal,
Why is critical appraisal an esse...
11  cards
Public health and health promotion interventions
What are the indicators of health,
What are the causes of mortality ...,
What are the wider determinants o...
28  cards
Neglected tropical disease (NTDs)/progress towards elimination of NTDs
What are neglected tropical diseases,
What strategies are used against ...,
What do ntds promote
7  cards

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