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Pros And Cons Of Epidemiology

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Lesson One: Introduction To Epidemiology Our first lesson will introduce to you the basics of epidemiology, we will look at the definition of epidemiology, its key components, and its sub-disciplines. Discuss the genesis of epidemiology from a historical perspective Identify practical. Lesson Two: Understanding Measures Of Disease Frequency This lesson introduces measures of disease frequency, its Prevalent vs Incident Cases. we will study how to determine the prevalence rate of proportion of persons in a population who have a particular disease or attribute at a specified point in time or over a specified period of time. you'll learn how relative size of an initially disease-free population that develops disease, becomes injured, or dies during a specified (usually limited) period of time. we will look at the A person-time rate how its generally calculated from a long-term cohort follow-up study, …show more content…

we will also learn at the possible ways of reducing sampling errors, measurement of error in reliability and validity. and will common sources of error; selection Bias will be covered in this lesson. Lesson Seven: Study Designs We'll move on to the Design and analysis: In this lesson you will be able to recognize and describe important components of this type of study Define/calculate appropriate measures of frequency for this study Define/calculate appropriate measure of association for this study. Identify issues relevant to causal inference from this type of study Identify advantages and disadvantages inherent in this type of study Assess and interpret the results of a current/historic study of this type. Lesson Eight: Causal

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