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Study Designs (Measuring Disease Frequency (2. How many people develop a…
Study Designs
Disease Measurement
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- provides sources of information for the ‘disease detective’;
- allows us to evaluate public health measures.
- allows us to compare disease, within and across populations;
- essential component of epidemiology;
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Person-Time
- If we follow two people for six months, that is one person-year
- If we follow 12 people for one month, that is one person-year
- If we follow one person for one year, that is one person-year
10n
This is an optional multiple of 10 that we multiply the answer by to express it in a preferred format. For % ‘10n’ = 100.