Introduction to Epidemiology and Environmental Health

Week 7 - Study types I


LEARNING OBJECTIVES:

At the end of this lesson, student will be able to:

  1. Name three conditions for establishing causality
  2. Name main study types and place them in hierarchy of causality
  3. Describe case-series, ecological and cross-sectional studies
  4. Discuss advantages and disadvantages of ecological and cross-sectional studies
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    https://is.muni.cz/el/sci/podzim2023/E2040/um/week_7/E2040--Study_types_1.pptx
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    https://is.muni.cz/el/sci/podzim2023/E2040/um/week_7/Maurage_2013--Does_chocolate_consumption_really_boost_Nobel_award_chances__The_peril_of_over-interpretign_correlations_in_health_studeis.pdf
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    https://is.muni.cz/el/sci/podzim2023/E2040/um/week_7/Messerli_2012--Chocolate_consumption__cognitive_function__and_Nobel_Laureates_.pdf
NHANES Survey Explorer
The app was adapted: - Adding 1000 samples at a time - Chi2 and Odds ratios are now calculated for each category.

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