Compare and contrast the key features of descriptive epidemiology with those of analytic epidemiology

Differences between descriptive and analytical epidemiology

1.       Descriptive epidemiology answers this questions who? what? where? when? Of the disease in an attempt to generate a hypothesis while analytical epidemiology is the studies that are conducted to test the hypothesis and give conclusions of a specific disease. Answers the questions why and how.

2.       Descriptive epidemiology generates a hypothesis while analytical epidemiology tests the hypothesis.

3.       Descriptive epidemiology identifies a group at a risk of a certain disease while analytical gives the cause of a disease.

4.       No interventions are done in descriptive epidemiology while interventions are analyzed in analytical epidemiology

Similarities

1.       They are both research design used in epidemiology.

2.       Both study causes, the occurrence of a disease or health condition.

3.       Outcomes from both aid in fulfilling epidemiology objectives.

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