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Enviro epidemiology

Study of diseases and health conditions (occurring in pop) linked to enviro factors
Exposures usually involuntary

Epidemiologys contributions to enviro health

Concerns with pop
Use of observational data
Methodology for study designs
Descriptive and analytic studies

Concerns with pop

Enviro epidemiology studies entire pop
Sometimes called pop medicine

Use of observational data

Epidemiology is primarily in observational science
Takes advantage of naturally occurring situations to study the occurrence of disease

Methodology for study designs

Characteristic study designs used frequently in environmental epidemiology:
Cross-sectional
Ecologic
Case-Control
Cohort