PHRM 100 Lecture 5: PPHC 5
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Lo: to know the three types of epidemiology (review from lec 03) Descriptive: to examine patterns (of disease, health behaviors) Analytic: to evaluate relationships between risk/ protective factors and disease. Experimental: to evaluate a treatment/ intervention, and compare treatment(s)/ intervention(s) Exposure (drug, intervention, policy) --> outcome (clinical measure, disease outcome, patient satisfaction) Evaluate specific intervention (can be new drug, device, health care service, or coffee: exposed group (e. g. , treatment) vs. comparison group (e. g. , placebo, usual care) Create a controlled environment so that the only thing different between the groups is the exposure itself: any difference source of error/ bias. Assess efficacy of an intervention in humans. Efficacy vs effectiveness (lecture 13: efficacy: ability to achieve a desired effect (under highly controlled conditions rtc, effectiveness: do interventions work in circumstances that reflect real- world practice i. e. the covid vaccines on real people. Lo: to familiarize features of experimental studies: access eligibility.
