HLTB15H3 Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: Workplace Wellness, Inter-Rater Reliability, Confounding
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Analytic epidemiologic research aims to collect valid & precise information about the causes, prevention, & treatment of disease . E. g. , well-being, disease, injuries, disabilities, death to determine the relationship b/t exposure and disease. Main types: includes experimental and observational studies. Can be using routinely collected data or health surveys can aim to examine patterns of of disease for death. By sociodemographic factors (e. g. , age, sex, ethnicity) Does not aim to examine association between exposure and outcome. Y-axis = age group (slide 20 graph info . Lower incidence rate in females than males. Higher incidence rates of cancer in older age groups. Only describing a pattern, no direct associations made about the cause of cancer. Validity of comparisons made within the study. Whether observed results can be attributed to intervention. Necessary to make validity inferences for the sources population of study subjects.
