Epidemiolgy Terminology
The study of what is upon the people
What is Epidemiology
Type of study that would employ an intervention and a control group.
What are Interventional/Experimental Studies?
Study design where participants are randomly assigned into an experimental or control group.
What are Randomized Control Trials?
Leuwenhoek's ocular contribution to science.
What is the microscope?
In epidemiology, the term that represents the dependent variable
What are Outcomes?
Type of study that investigates associations between exposures and outcomes nonexperimentally
What are observational studies?
Study design where participants are assessed at a singular point in time.
What are Cross-Sectional Studies?
The individual known as the "father of medicine".
Who is Hippocrates?
A prediction derived from theory, literature, or speculation about the outcome of a study.
What is a hypothesis?
Branch of epidemiology concerned with answering the "who, what, where and when" for the sake of generating a hypothesis
What is Descriptive Epidemiology?
Study design that assesses overall frequency of diseases in a series of populations or geographical areas.
What are Correlational/Ecological Studies?
The individual whose contributions include hospital reform, statistical methods, and nursing education.
Who is Florence Nightingale?
In epidemiology, the term that represents the independent variable
What are Exposures?
Historically, the main theoretical orientation employed in epidemiology.
What is postpositivism?
A study design that involves looking back in time to identify those that had an exposure.
A disease you might be able to cure with a few glasses of orange juice or lemonade
What is scurvy?
In cohort studies, the term (or equation) that represents the likelihood of developing the outcome.
What is a risk ratio/relative risk (RR)?
Branch of epidemiology concerned with answering questions of "why" and "how" to test hypotheses
What is Analytic Epidemiology?
A study design where one would calculate the likelihood of developing outcome by following a population of exposed individuals over time.
What are Cohort Studies?
The disease that Jon Snow sought to eradicate, prompting the first epidemiological study.
What is Cholera?