Introduction to Epidemiology and Environmental Health

Week 7 - Study designs in epidemiology I

LEARNING OBJECTIVES:

At the end of this lesson, student will be able to:

  1. Name three conditions for establishing causality
  2. Name main study types and place them in hierarchy of causality
  3. Describe case-series, ecological and cross-sectional studies
  4. Discuss advantages and disadvantages of ecological and cross-sectional studies