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Public Health Master’s Degrees in Epidemiology: What Questions to Ask

BU School of Public Health Blog

The core of epidemiology is understanding why some groups of people are healthier or sicker than others, so we can use that evidence to improve everyone’s health. Epidemiologists work on a huge range of health concerns, from infertility to healthy aging and everything in between. Consider the environment of the program overall.

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Public Health Master’s Degrees Programs: What To Look For

BU School of Public Health Blog

The core of epidemiology is understanding why some groups of people are healthier or sicker than others, so we can use that evidence to improve everyone’s health. Epidemiologists work on a huge range of health concerns, from infertility to healthy aging and everything in between. Consider the environment of the program overall.

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Overadjustment – an important bias hiding in plain sight

International Journal of Epidemiology Blog

To illustrate this, researchers highlighted the impact that overadjustment would have on their total effect of interest ( educational inequalities in health among people with chronic kidney disease ) by building various models with different levels of adjustment and explicitly comparing the results.