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Epidemiology
Epidemiology is the branch of medical science that deals with the transmission and control of disease. Epidemiology is the study of health events, health characteristics and health determinant patterns in a population. It is a cornerstone method of public health research and its major areas of work include outbreak investigation; disease surveillance and screening; biomonitoring; and comparisons of treatment effects such as in clinical trials.
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Can you give me a sentence using epidemiology?
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Epidemiology is a branch of medicine sutying epidemics and the spread of diseases.
How do you control the variables when investigations involve human?
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The gender and age should be the same.
What are the advantages and disadvantages of cohort studies?
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Advantages
Cohort studies are the more direct evaluation study of health and disease patterns
Measures risk
Disadvantages
Relatively expensive
Require a long follow up period
Subjects may be lost during the long follow period
A large number of subjects is needed
Is defined as systematic error in the collection or interpretation of epidemiologic data?
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bias
Is epidemiology a qualitative science or quantitative science?
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qualitative science
How do you find relative risk?
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Relative risk (RR) is calculated as follows:
- Incidence among the exposed / Incidence among the unexposed; OR
- a/(a+b) OVER c/(c+d)
What is The strategy which is not aimed at reducing selection bias is?
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the strategy that will not help reduce selection bias is:
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