A list of journals:General journals:American Journal of EpidemiologyCanadian Journal of Epidemiology and BiostatisticsGlobal Epidemiological NewsEpidemiologic ReviewsEpidemiologyInternational Journal ...
Different fields in epidemiology have different levels of validity. One way to assess the validity of findings is the ratio of false-positives (claimed effects that are not correct) to false-negatives ...
Main article: Study designCase series__Case-series may refer to the qualititative study of the experience of a single patient, or small group of patients with a similar diagnosis, or to a statistical ...
Epidemiological practice and the results of epidemiological analysis make a significant contribution to emerging population-based health management frameworks.Population-based health management encomp ...
As a public health discipline, epidemiologic evidence is often used to advocate both personal measures like diet change and corporate measures like removal of junk food advertising, with study finding ...
Although epidemiology is sometimes viewed as a collection of statistical tools used to elucidate the associations of exposures to health outcomes, a deeper understanding of this science is that of dis ...
Epidemiologists employ a range of study designs from the observational to experimental and generally categorized as descriptive, analytic (aiming to further examine known associations or hypothesized ...
To date, few universities offer epidemiology as a course of study at the undergraduate level. Many epidemiologists are physicians, or hold graduate degrees such as a Master of Public Health (MPH), Mas ...
The Greek physician Hippocrates is known as the father of medicine.. Hippocrates sought a logic to sickness; he is the first person known to have examined the relationships between the occurrence of d ...
Epidemiology, literally meaning "the study of what is upon the people", is derived from Greek epi, meaning "upon, among", demos, meaning "people, district", and logos, meaning "study, word, discourse ...
Epidemiology is the study (or the science of the study) of the patterns, causes, and effects of health and disease conditions in defined populations. It is the cornerstone of public health, and inform ...
