Epidemiology - the backbone of public health

The video introduces epidemiology, highlighting its complexity and importance in public health. It explains the two main focuses: distribution and causation. Distribution involves understanding how diseases and health states are spread across demographics, geography, and time. Causation examines the relationship between exposures and health outcomes, emphasizing the need to distinguish correlation from causation. The video also discusses the role of confounding variables and other factors that can affect epidemiological studies.

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