Descriptive Epidemiology:
Generate Hypothesis
Answers What, Where, Who, and When
Analytic Epidemiology:
Test Hypothesis
Answers Why and How
Public Health Surveillance Systems provide necessary data to measure frequency and patterns of diseases, provides statistical information, reports and practice guidelines. Ex. CDC WONDER
2/22/13 the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy (OSTP) issued a memorandum titled “Increasing Access to the Results of Federally Funded Scientific Research”.
IMRaD: Introduction, Methods, Results and Discussion
Access all of these databases from Pipeline/Blackboard or Public Health Research Guide.
Also utilize features of where to search your terms and limiters to filter results.
Citation Management Consultations
Wednesday & Thursdays
10:00 AM or 3:00 PM
reference@hpu.edu
Using some of your keywords from the previous exercise, create an advanced search string and practice searching in a database.
Find a potential scientific study and email it to yourself and librarian.
Send your search string in the note or comment section of the email.
Librarian: Elizabet Torres
etorres@hpu.edu