Study objective: (1) To provide a didactic and conceptual (rather than mathematical) link between multilevel regression analysis (MLRA) and social epidemiological concepts. (2) To develop an ...
The case-crossover design is widely used in environmental epidemiology as an effective alternative to the conventional time-series regression design to estimate short-term associations of ...
The study uses an example based on hypothetical data on systolic blood pressure (SBP) from 25,000 people living in 39 neighbourhoods. As the focus is on the empty MLRA model, the study does not use ...
Nutritional epidemiology could be regarded as a subdiscipline of epidemiology, which provides a specific expertise that is also an integral part of nutritional sciences. As a subdiscipline of ...
In this documentary video from the New England Journal of Medicine, physicians and scientists from across the world discuss the epidemiology of malaria and outline key strategies for prevention and ...
The coronavirus pandemic has underscored that the field of epidemiology, which focuses on discovering the causes of disease outbreaks and tracing the spread of illness, is an academic discipline with ...