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🤒Intro to Epidemiology
Key Terms

292 essential vocabulary terms and definitions to know for your Intro to Epidemiology exam

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A

Access to healthcare
Acute morbidity
Administrative data
Age Cohort Effects
Agent
Aggregate data
Alcohol consumption
Alcohol misuse
Allostatic Load
Analytic studies
Animal health data
Antibiotic use in livestock
Antigen
Antimicrobial stewardship
Attack Rate
Attributable proportion due to interaction (ap)
Attributable risk
Attrition bias

B

Baseline data
Behavior change
Behavioral change models
Beveridge Model
Binomial Testing
Bismarck Model

C

Cardiovascular diseases
Case Ascertainment
Case Definition
Case finding
Case Report
Case Reporting
Case Series
Causal diagram
Causal effect
Causal pathway
CDC
CDC Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report
Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
Chemical hazards
Chemical pollutants
Child Mortality
Chronic Morbidity
Chronic stress
Clinical data
Clinical Trials
Cohort selection
Community health worker programs
Community-based interventions
Community-based participatory research
Completeness assessment
Contact tracing
Contextual validity
Cost-effectiveness
Cost-effectiveness analyses
Cost-effectiveness analysis
Covid-19
Cross-level bias
Cross-over Design
Crude Rates
Culturally Competent Care
Culturally tailored interventions
Cut-off value

D

Data Triangulation
Demographic factors
Diarrheal diseases
Difference-in-differences approach
Direct transmission
Disability-adjusted life years
Disability-Adjusted Life Years (DALY)
Disability-adjusted life years (DALYs)
Disaggregated data collection
Disease eradication
Disease mechanisms
Disease Monitoring
Disease prevalence
Disease registries