Epidemiology - Public Health
An approach to estimating the effects due to the single exposure factor is to compute the: A. risk difference B. etiological fraction C. population etiologic fraction D. population risk difference
Ans) B. Etiological fraction
Explaination: An approach to estimating the effects due to the single exposure factor is to compute the Etiological fraction.
- Etiologic fraction is the proportion of cases in the exposed population in which the exposure has played a causal role in disease development.
- Etiologic fraction is the probability of causation
(A1 + A2)/A+
- Etiologic fractions cannot be estimated directly from studies because the etiologic fraction requires strong biologic assumptions and are very sensitive to them.
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