Lesson 2(Strategies Of Epidemiology) Flashcards
What are the two types of risk Factors?
Risk Factor and Protective Factor
It is a type of a risk Factors that which predisposes one individual to obtain disease.
Risk Factor
What are the two types of Epidemiologic approach?
Descriptive Epidemiology and Analytic Epidemiology
It is a type of Epidemiologic approach which inquire into the nature of an unknown phenomena or the occurrence of an event.
Descriptive Epidemiology
What are the 3 types of Descriptive Epidemiology?
Ecologic,Case report and Prevalence Studies
It is a descriptive type of epidemiology that deals with ecologic groups.
Ecologic
It is a type of Descriptive Epidemiology where it follows an usual case or group of cases of a particular disease whose ethiology is unknown or different from the usual report.
Case report/ case series
It is a type of Descriptive Epidemiology where it follows and defines existing cases of a disease in a given population.
Prevalence Studies
What are the 2 types of Analytic Epidemiology?
Observational Studies and Intervention studies/ Experimental Studies
What are the 3 types of observational studies?
Cross - sectional
Case- Control
Cohort studies
What are the 3 types of cohort studies?
Analytical epidemiology
Prospective
Longitudinal
What are the 3 types of case control?
Analytical epidemiology
Retrospective
Longitudinal
It is a statement about the relationship between 2 variables?
Hypothesis
What are the 2 types of Hypothesis?
Independent Variable and Dependent variable
It is a type of Hypothesis which influences an outcome?
Independent Variable
