Epidemiology

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Contents

See for

case control, case control study, cohort, prevalence

Broader Terms

human population study

Narrower Terms

cardiovascular disorder epidemiology, communicable disease transmission, disease /disorder onset, disease /disorder proneness /risk, emerging infectious disease, mental health epidemiology, neoplasm /cancer epidemiology, nervous system disorder epidemiology, nutritional epidemiology, respiratory disorder epidemiology, substance abuse epidemiology

Related Terms

comorbidity, disease /disorder etiology, environmental exposure, mass screening

Scope Note

study of factors determining and influencing the frequency and distribution of disease, injury, and other health related events and their causes in a defined human population.

Facts (generated by robot; please edit if you find it inaccurate)

  • What is epidemiology? Epidemiology is the study of how often diseases occur in different groups of people and why.
  • Epidemiology is the study of the distribution of health-related states or events in specified populations and the application of this study to the control of health problems (CDC).
  • About DMICE The Department of Medical Informatics & Clinical Epidemiology is a department in the Oregon Health and Science University (OHSU) School of Medicine.
  • The establishment of a Centre for Epidemiology is based on the idea that there are many interested parties within epidemiology and that the potentials for using the unique sources of information from the Swedish disease and population registers have not yet been fully explored.
  • As a "low-technology" science, epidemiology is readily accessible to nonspecialists.

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