epidemiology
Let an agent explain epidemiological concepts and methods, interpret epidemiological findings with appropriate caution, describe subfields, and support learning and public health communication.
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Purpose and description
Let an agent explain epidemiological concepts and methods, interpret epidemiological findings with appropriate caution, describe subfields, and support learning and public health communication.
The branch of health science that studies the distribution, determinants and control of diseases and health states in populations, using methods such as surveillance, cohort and case-control studies, trials and modelling, with subfields including clinical, environmental, behavioural and seroepidemiology and, for animal populations, epizootiology; epidemiology underpins public health policy and outbreak response.
What it is for: Understanding health and disease in populations.
It can be explain concepts such as incidence, risk and confounding; interpret studies and their limits; describe subfields; support public health communication.
Distinguishing features
Population focus
Quantitative methods
Causal inference
Policy relevance
What it looks like
Not physical; studies, data and reports.
How it is recognised
Population-level study of health
Uses rates and study designs
Clinical medicine treats individuals
Related models
is a kind of - category
is related to - application
is related to - methods
is related to - example of epidemiological research
In practice
Families and kinds
infectious disease epidemiology
chronic disease epidemiology
environmental and occupational epidemiology
clinical and behavioural epidemiology
seroepidemiology and epizootiology
Standards and regulation
Reporting guidelines such as STROBE
Research ethics and data protection
Disease surveillance regulations
Failure modes and hazards
Confusing correlation with causation
Misreading relative and absolute risk
Misinformation during outbreaks
Also called
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Where this came from
wikidata · CC0 1.0
Drafted structure
Bundle to layer to finding to question, as the second pass will find it: 4 bundles · 8 layers · 8 findings · 16 questions.
Concepts Core concepts.
Measures and designs.
Measures
Measures of disease.
Measures
Measures.
- What do incidence, prevalence, relative risk, odds ratio and attributable risk mean? definition
- How are absolute and relative risks communicated? definition
Designs
Study designs.
Designs
Designs.
- How do cohort, case-control, cross-sectional and trial designs differ, and what can each show? definition
- What are bias and confounding? definition
Interpret Reading studies.
Caution.
Study
Interpreting a study.
Study
Interpretation.
- What does this epidemiological study show, and what are its limitations? provenance
- Does it support a causal claim? boundary
News
Health news.
News
Health news.
- Is this health headline consistent with the underlying study? boundary
- How should uncertainty be communicated? action
Apply Outbreaks and policy.
Public health.
Outbreak
Outbreak investigation.
Outbreak
Outbreaks.
- How are outbreaks investigated and controlled, and what is the current official guidance for this outbreak? provenance
- Is the user reporting symptoms needing medical care? boundary
Subfields
Subfields.
Subfields
Subfields.
- What do environmental, clinical, behavioural or seroepidemiology and epizootiology study? definition
- Which entry fits a specific subfield? action
Learn Study and careers.
Education.
Careers
Becoming an epidemiologist.
Careers
Careers.
- How does one train as an epidemiologist, and where do they work? provenance
- Which skills are needed? provenance
History
History of epidemiology.
History
History.
- How did epidemiology develop, from John Snow to modern methods? provenance
- Which studies are landmarks? provenance
What the second pass must settle
- Should each subfield be a separate entry?
- How should surveillance data be linked?
- How should reporting guidelines be linked?