PUBH-340 Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: Gonorrhea, Asthma, Measles

• School: American University
• Department: Public Health
• Course: PUBH-340
• Professor: Professor Free

Document Summary

American public health association: they have conferences every year, largest conferences of public health, they encourage students to show their research. Factors that affect the quality of epidemiological data: Function of the sources from which they were derived as well as how completely the data cover their reference populations. Data quality affects the permissible applications of the data and the types of statistical analyses that may be performed. External validity - representatives of a particular population. Refers to the generalizability of the findings to the population from which the data have been taken. Basically, the e xtent to which results of a study can be generalized to the world at large. Measures of morbidity and mortality require accurate information about the size and characteristics of the population. Provides data that can be used to define the denominator in rates with respect to official estimates of the total population size and subdivisions of the population by geographic area.