Measuring disease occurrence

The occurrence of bovine virus diarrhoea/muscosal disease in Iran

Drawing Word co-occurrence map of Spinal Muscular Atrophy disease

Introduction:  The purpose of this article is to evaluate the status of articles in the field of Spinal Muscular Atrophy According to the Scientometrics indices Word co-occurrence map of this field . Methods: The present study is an applied one with a quantitative approach and a descriptive approach. It has been done using scientometrics and the co-occurrence words analysis technique. Document...

Measuring the Frequency Occurrence of Handwriting and Handprinting Characteristics<sup/>.

The premise of this study was to take a valid population sampling of handwriting and handprinting and assess how many times each of the predetermined characteristic is found in the samples. Approximately 1500 handwriting specimens were collected from across the United States and pared to obtain a representative sample of the U.S. adult population according to selected demographics based on age,...

5. Measuring Disease and Exposure

At the beginning of this text we noted four key aspects of epidemiology: its multidisciplinary nature, and its concern with populations, measurement, and comparison. As all empirical scientistis, epidemiologists devote a great deal of attention to issues of measurement – the application of numbers to phenomena. Every object of study – a disease, an exposure, an event, a condition – must be defi...

Measuring the burden of disease