Introduction to Epidemiology and Environmental Health

Week 6 - Measures of association and effect

LEARNING OBJECTIVES:

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

  1. Define the prevalence & incidence of disease
  2. Describe the relationship between prevalence and incidence
  3. Describe the difference between risk and odds of disease
  4. Calculate risk ratio, risk difference, odds ratio
  5. Interpret risk and odds ratio