PUBHLTH 1 Chapter Notes - Chapter 7: Cancer Cluster, Risk Perception, Maternal Death

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20 Apr 2017
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Science of epidemiology & all public health rests on statistics. B/c concerned with populations, relies on statistics to provide and interpret data. Term statistics refers to numbers that describe the health of populations and the science that helps to interpret those numbers. Science of statistics is set of concepts and methods used to analyze data in order to extract information. Makes possible translation of data into information about causes and effects, health risks, and disease cures. In many cases, not enough data to give degree of certainty/insufficient data to allow for valid conclusion. Contradictory results from epidemiologic studies are common, b/c many sources of errors in the research. Pressure from politicians eager to get credit for supporting women"s health led to pretense of scientific certainty where none existed. Most scientific information is of probable nature not certainty. What [is concluded] is the best opinion at the moment, and things may be updated in the future.

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