HLTB16H3 Lecture Notes - Lecture 5: Cohort Study, Funeral Director, Stillbirth
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Week 5- february 3rd- surveillance and the role of data in public health. As a resear(cid:272)her, you do(cid:374)"t i(cid:374)ter(cid:448)e(cid:374)e. you just o(cid:271)ser(cid:448)e. I(cid:374) a (cid:272)ohort study, you do(cid:374)"t deter(cid:373)i(cid:374)e (cid:449)ho"s getting the experimental study. Cohort= group of people who go through the same events. Cohort study, recruit people into study and then follow them through. At the very beginning of study, the first thing you have to figure out is who has it and who does not. Takes long because it"s the progress of a disease. Can think of this in numerous ways. Identify high risk groups- when look at deaths per 1000 population. Often referred to as the figures of life and death. Longest standing data (1860s: even before that in various forms. Collection is responsibility of provincial and territorial governments, in cooperation with federal government: the federal government is required to find data on the aboriginal populations.
