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Natural Science |
life science: living organisms Physical science: nonliving |
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Formal Science |
Use formal systems to generate knowledge |
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Social Science |
Study of social life of human groups |
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Applied Science |
Existing knowledge to develop practical applications |
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Epidemiology |
how often diseases occur in different groups of people and why |
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Prevalence |
The proportion of disease found to be affecting a particular population |
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Rate |
Measure of frequency with which an event occurs |
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Incidence |
reflects the occurrence of a new disease |
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Cohort Study |
participant is exposed or not, then tracks to see if they develop the disease of interest |
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Case control study |
group of people with disease and group without. Provides an estimate of the baseline or expected amount of exposure in the population |
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Cross sectional study |
Exposures and health outcomes are measured simultaneously |
