Question

Epidemiology - Public Health

The measure of the benefit to the population derived by modifying a risk factor is the: A. risk difference B. etiological fraction C. population etiologic fraction D. population risk difference

Answer 1

Epidemiology - Public health

It is a sort of identifying the disease and preventing it in future.

The public health workers are keen in working on this.

The benefits are derived usually by modifying the risk factors.

A) Risk difference: It identifies the difference between the age ,gender,area, type to predict the risk and health educating them on the prevention methods.

B) Etiology fraction: It describes the causative factors in the environment , how and who can be infected.

C) Population etiology fraction: It describes which group of population are at high risk by the causative agent

D) Population risk difference: By calculating this it gives a detailed analysis of who can be infected, which population are affected.

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