Health Sciences 1001A/B Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Independent Community And Health Concern, World Health Organization
30 Jan 2016
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Thesis: gasoline lead is responsible for a good share of the rise and fall of violent crime over the past half century : another physician argued that a correlation between the 2 phenomenon does not equal cause-and-effect. Tips to avoid palling prey to bad science in health stores: is the sample representative. Time frames, comparison to others products: who funded the research, was the report based on experimental or observational science. This is because outside variables that the scientists don"t control for or confounding factors would be equally distributed between the two groups. Randomized experiments are more trustworthy than observational studies. Many studies, in different contexts, using different methods, on different populations will change clinical practice and thinking about health. Evidence based blogs minimize bias, sum up all the research on a subject and will get you closer to the truth than any single study can.
