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| Identify and qualify causal factors, risk factors, risk indicators |
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| establish clinical or public health practices are either beneficial, useless or harmful |
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| measures the degree to which an efficacious practice actually benefits a defined population |
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| Measuring the effectiveness of a given expenditure of resources |
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| Assess the extent to which a stated goal, objective or standard, actually is reached as a result of specific health practices |
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| about the epidemiologic perspective and the value of applying quantitative science and public health problems |
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| measure the probability that healthy people will develop a disease over a specified period of time |
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| Probability of people having a particular disease at a given time; number of existing cases of a condition at a given time |
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| Navajo Indians aged 45-64 is 4X higher than among general population is an example of |
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| Calculated by studies of precursors, or exposure to some factor and the subsequent clinical events |
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| group of individual sharing a statistical factor in common in a demographic or epidemiologic study |
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| ability of a test to give a positive result when the test is applied to a patient known to have the disease |
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| Ability of a test to give a negative result when given to a person known to not have the diseases |
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| Probability of a disease before new diagnostic info |
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| Probability of a disease after new diagnostic information |
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| Positive Predictive Value |
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| (Prevalence) (Sensitivity) / (Prev)(Sens) + (1-Prev)(1-Specif) |
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| Four principles of biomedical ethics |
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| Nonmaleficence, Beneficence, Autonomy, Justice |
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