Principles of Epidemiology

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Epidemiology is the science concerned with the study of the factors which determine and influence the frequency and distribution of disease in a defined human population for the purpose of establishing programs to prevent and control their development and spread.

This interactive computer-based tutorial program will teach you about:

• the basic concepts of Epidemiology in such a way that their relevance to health care is clear
• the major types of epidemiological studies (e.g. case-control, cohort, randomized trial)
• the relative advantages and disadvantages of each type of epidemiological study
• how to quantify the results of epidemiological studies, and in which studies different quantitative measures may be used (e.g. relative risk, odds ratio)
• statistical significance
• clinical significance

This program is not designed to focus on biostatistics, which is the application of statistics to medicine. For example, the interpretation of a p-value resulting from a study is covered in this program, whereas the actual calculation of such a p-value is considered beyond the scope of this tutorial.

About the Demonstration Program

This demo is intended to provide the user with a basic understanding of the program's objectives, content and appearance. The actual program is much more indepth. This program demonstration runs on IBM/MS-DOS compatible microcomputers with a VGA graphics card. To run the demo program, unzip it in its own directory and then run EPIDEMO.BAT.
 

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Catalog Number: RE941-CB-039