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Community Health Epidemiology Unit: Disease Determinants, Measurement of Disease Occurrence, Study Designs, Screening and Surveillance

An epidemiology unit from the community health module that works topic by topic through the introduction to epidemiology, disease determinants and prevention, the measurement of disease occurrence and descriptive epidemiology. The analytical and experimental study designs, sampling methods, population screening and disease surveillance follow with their definitions and worked examples, and the unit opens by setting epidemiology against clinical medicine at the molecular, organ, individual and community levels.

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