Question

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

Answer 1

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.