KEY TERMS Adjusted rate Biopsy Birth rate Congenital Cost–benefit analysis Cost-effectiveness analysis Crude rate False-negative False-positive Fertility rate Gene Mammogram p value Rates Risk assessment Screening Sensitive Significance Specific Statistics…
KEY TERMS Association Case-control studies Cohort study Double-blind Experimental group Epidemic curve Incidence Intervention study Mortality rate Placebo Prevalence Probability Randomized Relative risk This chapter examines epidemiology more closely, defining…
KEY TERMS Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ) Health services research National Committee for Quality Assurance (NCQA) Outcomes research Pap test In the late 1960s and early 1970s, the…
KEY TERMS Birth defect Chronic disease Control group Endemic level Epidemic Immune system Incubation period Notifable disease/Reportable disease Vital statistics Charles-Edward Amory Winslow, the great public health leader of the…
KEY TERMS Carrying capacity Global warming Human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) Urbanization Population biology is a science in itself. Studies of animal, plant, and microorganism…
