HRPR 1001 Lecture Notes - Lecture 6: Prostate Cancer, Disability-Adjusted Life Year, Jones & Bartlett Learning

• School: Temple University
• Department: Health Related Professions
• Course: HRPR 1001
• Professor: Dingman

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Hrpr 1001: the way we live, work and play. Public health: what it is and how it works: jones and bartlett. Click to edit master title style health in the us: This is old data, we have new numbers! Click to edit master title style sources of health data: National click to edit master title style vital statistics reports; vol. Quantifying health related events click to edit master title style. The ability to accurately measure the occurrence of health related events forms the foundation of epidemiology. All proportions are ratios, but not all ratios are proportions: a ratio is the relationship between any two numbers (x/y, a proportion is a ratio in which the numerator is included in the denominator (x/x+y). Click to edit master title style ratio: used to compare two quantities. Click to edit master title style proportions vs. A proportion is a specific type of ratio in which the numerator is included in the denominator.