Introduction to Epidemiology
What is epidemiology? - answer-Study of the distribution and determinants of health-related states or events in specified populations and the application of this study to the control of health problems What is distribution? - answer-Who? Where? When? Which animals are affected (ages, breed, location, time)? What are determinants? - answer-Why? How? Why are the specific animals affected and others are not? What "risk factors" are causing this? T/F - Health events are often random. - answer-FALSE - health events are often NOT random What can epidemiological inferences be regarded as? - answer-Sequence of *reasoning* concerned with biological inferences derived from *observations* of outcome occurrence and related phenomena What are the steps in the epidemiological approach? - answer-1. Is there an association between
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