Case Report and Case Series | Study Designs | Epidemiology in Minutes | EpiMinutes 3
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- čas přidán 7. 09. 2024
- Case reports are the simplest forms of epidemiological studies involving individuals. A group of cases having similar health conditions forms a case series. Both case reports and case series provide an excellent description of a particular health problem. But they cannot test a hypothesis or prove an association between an exposure and outcome. Why?
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Let's grab the fundamental concepts of epidemiology in a few minutes. The rest is on you. You will decide how you would take them forward and apply them in real-life settings. ………………………………………………………………………………………………………
Dr Kazi Mizanur Rahman is a medical graduate (Dhaka Medical College, University of Dhaka), with post-graduate qualifications in epidemiology (MS Epidemiology, Harvard University) and population health (PhD, Australian National University). Dr Rahman worked for a decade at the International Centre for Diarrhoeal Disease Research, Bangladesh as a public health researcher. He also taught at James P Grant School of Public Health, BRAC University for five years. In Australia, since finishing his PhD in 2015, Kazi has been working as an epidemiologist both in academia and program with a focus on protection and promotion of health at the population level.
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