BPK 140 Lecture 3: kins 140 Lecture 3 Prof Arnold
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Evaluate sources of health information for credibility and describe the characteristics of. 4. suggest alternative solutions explain how epidemiology works. Identify whether a particular example represents experimental, epidemiological, clinical or anecdotal evidence. Scientist are trained to look at the evidence when evaluating health claims. There are several types of evidence, some better than others. Experimental evidence: the preferred type of scientific evidence. Ethics (animals, tissue cultures [skin cells], computer models: epidemiological evidence. Epidemiology: study of the distribution & determinants of a condition in a population . It is scientific evidence, but not as high quality as experimental evidence. Correlating who gets a disease with what they do or what they are exposed to. Smokers get lung cancer (and other other cancers and diseases) more often than non smokers. Women who are sexually active develop cervical cancer more often than women who are not.