Epidemiology
21 entries in the Epidemiology compendium.
2022–2023 pediatric care crisisA pediatric healthcare surge following pandemic-era reduced viral exposure.Accident-pronenessConcept that some individuals are more prone to accidents than others.Acoustic epidemiologyStudy of disease distribution through analysis of bodily sounds.Africa/Harvard School of Public Health Partnership for Cohort Research and TrainingCollaborative cohort study investigating chronic disease in sub-Saharan Africa.Age adjustmentTechnique to compare populations with different age profiles.All of Us (initiative)A precision medicine research program collecting health data from one million volunteers.AMR (R package)Open-source R package for antimicrobial resistance data analysis.Apparent infection rateEstimate of disease progress rate from proportional infection measures.Assortative mixingBias favoring connections between similar network nodes.Epidemiology of asthmaAsthma epidemiology shows stark global and gender disparities.Atherosclerosis Risk in CommunitiesProspective cohort study of atherosclerosis etiology and outcomes.Attributable fraction among the exposedEpidemiological measure of risk attributable to exposure.Attributable fraction for the populationMeasure of incident proportion attributable to a risk factor in a population.Epidemiology of autismStudy of autism frequency, distribution, and diagnostic trends.Badger culling in the United KingdomControversial culling of badgers to control bovine tuberculosis in the UK.Base rateUnconditional probability of a characteristic in a population.Basic reproduction numberR₀ measures how many people one sick person infects.Epidemiology of bed bugsGlobal resurgence of bed bugs since the 1980s.Behavioral medicineInterdisciplinary field integrating behavioral and biomedical science for health.Linda Bell (epidemiologist)American physician and South Carolina State Epidemiologist.Epidemiology of binge drinkingBinge drinking patterns vary widely across cultures and demographics.
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