POPM 3240- Final Exam Guide - Comprehensive Notes for the exam ( 189 pages long!)

• School: University of Guelph
• Department: Population Medicine
• Course: POPM 3240
• Professor: Andria Jones

Document Summary

Explain the varying approaches in which epidemiology can be used to understand disease: disease occurance, cause of disease, screening for disease, accuracy of clinical diagnostics, prognoses for many diseases, clinical effectiveness of treatments. Interpretation of diagnostic tests: health promotion, diseas eprvention and prolonging life. If you don"t have enough subjects then even the best sampling strategy will not find the results you desire. Whiteheads"s case co(cid:374)trol stud(cid:455) e(cid:454)a(cid:373)ple: snow did not have a control group to compare. Regression analysis: how to find the relationship/pattern in plotted data, y=mx+b, line of best fit (regression line, regression line = y = (cid:882) + (cid:883)x(cid:883) Laboratory-based surveillance: relies on data produced in labs, responsible for confirming new cases of infectous disease, detect changes in the presence or behavior of pathogens, and to evaluate the. Important fr national international disease surveillance impact of prevention and control measures. Describe the general approaches taken and outcomes achieved by.