Cost-effective approaches for identifying and enrolling subjects in community-based epidemiological studies face many challenges. Additional challenges arise when a neighborhood scale of analysis is ...

Environmental Health Perspectives, Vol. 101, Supplement 4: Environmental Epidemiology (Dec., 1993), pp. 187-191 (5 pages) Epidemiologic studies of the respiratory health effects of air pollution are ...

The Mechanisms for Novel and Established Risk Factors for Breast Cancer in Women of Nigerian Descent (MEND) study was designed as a matched case-control study of 350 patients, age 18 to 75 years, with ...

Professor Brian Lee works on his research in the Department of Epidemiology and Biostatistics. The Drexel University School of Public Health recently announced the creation of a Master of Science in ...

Many epidemiologic studies of the health effects of exposure to ambient air pollution use measurements from central-site monitors as their exposure estimate. However, measurements from central-site ...

Public health is a field that's widely misunderstood, even by science journalists. That's because epidemiology is an inexact science, complicated by a large variability in the quality of the data it ...

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All faculty in the Department of Epidemiology have research backgrounds, and many have public health practice experience. Research and practice are done in all major areas of epidemiology, including ...

Epidemiologists identify public health hazards, evaluate health interventions and monitor health systems data to protect public health. Every day epidemiologists across the world analyze data, conduct ...

An increasing number of Swedes are getting tattoos and Sweden's population is now one of the most tattooed in Europe. At the ...