10 Questions
Who is considered the Father of Epidemiology?
John Snow
Which epidemiologist was the first to employ 'quantitative' methods in describing population vital statistics?
John Graunt
Which study design did Doll & Hill use in their research on smoking and lung cancer association?
Case-control study
Which epidemiologist used a cohort design to study risk factors for cardiovascular disease?
Dawber et al.
What was the significant finding of John Snow's epidemiologic studies on cholera transmission?
Water as a vehicle for cholera transmission
In which areas are epidemiological principles and methods commonly applied?
Health promotion
What did Doll & Hill's case-control design aim to investigate?
Association between smoking and lung cancer
'Nature and Political Observations Made Upon the Bills of Mortality' is a work by which epidemiologist?
John Graunt
Which study design did Dawber et al. use in the Framingham Heart Study?
Cohort study
What was a key contribution of Doll & Hill to epidemiology?
Studied smoking-lung cancer association
Explore how the results of epidemiological studies are utilized by various scientific fields such as health economics, health policy analysis, and health services management. Understand the importance of studying disease at the population level and its relation to other levels of disease study.
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