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14 maj 2015 · This document discusses various epidemiological study designs used to assess health outcomes and answer clinical questions. It begins by outlining the 6 D's of health outcomes - death, disease, discomfort, disability, dissatisfaction, and destitution.
24 kwi 2022 · This document provides information on epidemiological study designs, including analytical studies, case-control studies, and cohort studies. It defines epidemiology as the study of health-related states in populations. Case-control studies look backward from the outcome to exposures, comparing cases to controls.
A major goal of epi research is causality Epi studies measure 3 things: exposures, confounders & outcomes Once quantified, the association between exposure and outcome is the central focus There are many ways of evaluating the association between an exposure and an outcome: these are the different study designs. Exposure.
Study Design in Epidemiology (cont.) Analytic Epidemiology Focuses on the determinants of a disease by testing the hypotheses formulated from descriptive studies. The ultimate goal is judging whether a particular exposure causes or prevents disease. Each descriptive and analytic study design has its unique strengths and limitations.
This document provides an overview of epidemiological study designs including descriptive and analytical designs. Descriptive designs observe characteristics of diseases without assessing associations between exposures and outcomes.
This module will build on descriptive epidemiology and on measuring disease frequency and association by discussing cohort studies and intervention studies (clinical trials). Our discussion of analytic study designs will continue in module 5 which addresses case-control studies.
EPID160/EPID600, Principles of Epidemiology for Public Health. Instructors: Victor J. Schoenbach, Lorraine K. Alexander. Lectures. The following titles link to the Powerpoint slides for the EPID160/EPID600 lectures. The files include verbatim speaker notes.
