Cost-effective approaches for identifying and enrolling subjects in community-based epidemiological studies face many challenges. Additional challenges arise when a neighborhood scale of analysis is ...

Environmental Health Perspectives, Vol. 101, Supplement 4: Environmental Epidemiology (Dec., 1993), pp. 187-191 (5 pages) Epidemiologic studies of the respiratory health effects of air pollution are ...

What is 'epidemiology'? Epidemiology is defined as the study of the distribution and determinants of disease in populations. Clinical epidemiology is the study of the distribution and determinants of ...

Background Epidemiological studies of injury have mainly been performed on team sports. Present methods for data collection and analysis neglect important features of individual sports. Aims To ...

1 Section of Social Medicine and Public Health, Department of Medical and Health Sciences, Linköping University, Linköping, Sweden 2 Section of Sports Orthopedic Surgery, Department of Surgical ...

Professor Brian Lee works on his research in the Department of Epidemiology and Biostatistics. The Drexel University School of Public Health recently announced the creation of a Master of Science in ...

In epidemiological studies of infectious disease, researchers often rely on specific cues of the host, such as clinical signs, as surrogate indicators of pathogen presence. A selection bias would ...

The restricted mean survival time (RMST) analysis technique was introduced in health care research about 25 years ago and since then has become widely used in economics, engineering, business and ...

The PhD in Epidemiology is offered by the Department of Epidemiology. The PhD in Epidemiology emphasizes epidemiologic study design and data analysis. The program is designed to prepare exceptionally ...

Public health is a field that's widely misunderstood, even by science journalists. That's because epidemiology is an inexact science, complicated by a large variability in the quality of the data it ...