HLTH 403 Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: Cardiovascular Disease, Weight Loss, Quackery
13 May 2019
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Hlth 403 - consumer health - module #2. Lecture - critical thinking for health (jeff guidry) Must not be contaminated by personal factors. To be valid, findings must be repeated by others. Exploratory = when you are exploring different possibilities that could be related; Descriptive = describe the research study; pulling out basic information to e. g. define a word with a word describe the study. Predictive = making a prediction based on our knowledge and understanding of. Studies utilized in medical science the research. Case studies = identifying individuals to study and follow over a period of time, either prospectively or retrospectively to try and develop the factors demonstrating any differences among the cases. Epidemiologic studies = study of disease; how to look at different types of diseases and how they affect groups or individuals; e. g. how it relates to health disparities.
