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Epidemiology

Terms in this set (7)

Descriptive epidemiology

describes a disease according to its person, place or time

Descriptive epidemiology describes a

person: demographic (age, sex, race)

place: examine geographical patterns

time: secular trends
point epidemic
cyclical time patterns
event related clusters

what are secular trends

social behaviors/practices

what is point epidemic?

time and space related trends

what are cyclical time patterns?

seasonal fluctuations

descriptive studies cannot establish...

casual relationships

but still play an important role in describing trends and generating hypotheses about novel associations

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