Category:Public health 2 - General epidemiology and demography
I wrote these notes for my public health final. The PH2 topics for the final are more or less the same as the topics for the PH2 exam itself, but there are slight differences. Check the topic lists.
Pages in category ‘Public health 2 - General epidemiology and demography’
The following 22 pages are in this category, out of 22 total.
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- 13. Evidence-based medicine and prevention
- 14. History and objectives of epidemiology
- 15. Causation in epidemiology: association and causation
- 16. Epidemiological indicators I: indicators of disease frequency and population impact of a disease
- 17. Epidemiological indicators II: definition and measures of relative risk and odds ratio
- 18. Standardization
- 19. Epidemiological studies: parameters, design
- 20. Descriptive epidemiological studies, cross-sectional studies
- 21. Ecological studies. Immigrant studies
- 22. Case-control studies
- 23. Cohort studies
- 24. Experimental (interventional) epidemiological studies
- 25. Meta-analysis, systematic review
- 26. Errors and bias in epidemiological studies
- 27. Confounders, effect modifiers and possibilities for elimination
- 28. Molecular epidemiology
- 29. Basic principles of screening
- 30. Optional and mandatory screening
- 31. Demography: definition, methods, data sources
- 32. Demographic indicators: measures of mortality
- 33. Demographic indicators: measures describing population groups. Population pyramids
- 34. Demographic indicators: measures of birth and fertility