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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

The CERC is a long-standing research unit comprised of epidemiologists, scientific and administrative support staff, data analysts, IT staff, project coordinators, interviewers, medical record ...

The faculty of the Department of Epidemiology are dedicated to advancing population health research using a variety of methodological approaches. Our research, from applied public health to ...

Epidemiology is the study and analysis of the distribution, patterns and determinants of health and disease conditions within populations; and is a cornerstone of clinical and public health. Academics ...

Epidemiologists identify public health hazards, evaluate health interventions and monitor health systems data to protect public health. Every day epidemiologists across the world analyze data, conduct ...

As influenza vaccination is now widely recommended, randomized clinical trials are no longer ethical in many populations. Therefore, observational studies on patients seeking medical care for acute ...