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  1. 1a - Epidemiology

Effect measures including odds ratios, rate ratios and risk ratios (relative risk)

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  • Use of routine vital and health statistics to describe the distribution of disease in time and place and by person
  • Numerators, denominators and populations at risk
  • Time at risk
  • Methods for Summarising Data
  • Incidence and prevalence including direct and indirect standardisation
  • Years of Life Lost
  • Measures of disease burden (event-based and time-based) and population attributable risks including identification of comparison groups appropriate to Public Health
  • Sources of variation, its measurement and control
  • Common errors in epidemiological measurements, their effects on numerator and denominator data and their avoidance
  • Concepts and measures of risk
  • Effect measures including odds ratios, rate ratios and risk ratios (relative risk)
  • Association and Causation
  • Biases and Confounding
  • Interactions, methods for assessment of effect modification
  • Strategies to allow/adjust for confounding in design and analysis
  • The design, applications, strengths and weaknesses of descriptive studies and ecological studies
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