Discuss
- Definitions: Infant mortality rate, Crude birth rate, General Fertility Rate, Total fertility rate
- NHIS, NHANES, BRFSS (know the main features of these surveys)
- Prevalence, incidence, incidence rate, mortality rate (and their calculations).
- Standardized incidence rate (SIR), Standardized Mortality Rate (SMR)
- Sensitivity, Specificity, PV+, PV-
- Direct and Indirect Age-standardization (Under what conditions do they apply?)
- Levels of prevention
- Advantages and disadvantages of cohort studies
- Advantages of randomization and blinding in clinical trials
- Relative risk, Attributable risk (AR), Attributable Proportion (AR%), Population Attributable Risk (PAR%) – and their interpretations.
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