What is 'epidemiology'? Epidemiology is defined as the study of the distribution and determinants of disease in populations. Clinical epidemiology is the study of the distribution and determinants of ...

Case-cohort study designs represent a cost-effective and efficient strategy for analysing time-to-event data, particularly when the event of interest is rare. By selecting a random subcohort along ...

Public health is a field that's widely misunderstood, even by science journalists. That's because epidemiology is an inexact science, complicated by a large variability in the quality of the data it ...

Background Epidemiological studies of injury have mainly been performed on team sports. Present methods for data collection and analysis neglect important features of individual sports. Aims To ...

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The Department of Epidemiology offers two graduate certificates – a 12-credit Epidemiology Methods Certificate and a 9-credit Applied Epidemiology Certificate. Both certificates are intended to ...

Research led by scientists at St George's, University of London, has discovered 119 areas in the genome that help to determine the size and shape of blood vessels at the back of the eye, and that an ...

Increasingly data mined from the electronic health record (EHR) are being used in epidemiological research. But more data does not equate to better quality research. This workshop will cover the ...

All faculty in the Department of Epidemiology have research backgrounds, and many have public health practice experience. Research and practice are done in all major areas of epidemiology, including ...

The accuracy of prostate-specific antigen (PSA) screening for prostate cancer can be improved by accounting for genetic factors that cause changes in PSA levels that are not associated with cancer, ...

1 Section of Social Medicine and Public Health, Department of Medical and Health Sciences, Linköping University, Linköping, Sweden 2 Section of Sports Orthopedic Surgery, Department of Surgical ...