Frequency Measures of Epidemiological Studies
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People are suffering from some diseases like cancer, HIV/AIDS, diabetes, hypertension, heart disease, malaria, sickle cell anemia, among others. Polio is also one of the diseases suffered by children in some developing countries. A lot of health-related problems have been bedeviling people all over the world. How to measure the diseases, determining their causes and plan the appropriate means of controlling the diseases as well as their occurrences are very important issues address by ‘Epidemiology’. Measures of frequency and association are very useful for that purpose and they are regarded as the fundamental of descriptive epidemiology.
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