Gathering Incidence for Public Health Practice

Question 1

Descriptive

Answer 1

describes new findings, occurrence, or illnesses
(ex. in the 1980’s people would describe their symptoms of HIV- before it was a thing)

Question 2

analytic

Answer 2

figure out casual relationships
-focus: risk factors and outcomes
-methods: uses states to test hypothesis (quantitative is better than qualitative)

Question 3

Does descriptive or analytic research come first

Answer 3

Descriptive comes before analytic

Question 4

the epidemiologic research cycle

Answer 4

1. descriptive studies
2. model-building/hypotheses formulation
3. analytic hypotheses-testing studies
4. analysis of results, further descriptive studies/new hypotheses

Question 5

Which type of study is most used in public health research

Answer 5

descriptive studies

Question 6

cross-sectional studies

Answer 6

gives a snapshot

Question 7

which study does not have interventions or treatments?

Answer 7

descriptive studies

Question 8

What is the gold standard study

Answer 8

randomized controlled trials: they give the highest level of evidence; decreased levels of bias

Question 9

what is a non-experimental study

Answer 9

examine phenomena prospectively to observe presumed effects over time (ex. smoking: we aren’t going to make people smoke to test for cancer correlation)

Question 10

Once numerous RCTs have been done separately, researchers can pool all that high quality data into…

Answer 10

meta analysis

Question 11

non-experimental designs can not prove…

Answer 11

causality