Group For Medical And Ecological Studies

Ecological Studies and Cardiovascular Outcomes Research

https://www.ahajournals.org/doi/full/10.1161/CIRCULATIONAHA.107.729806

Ecological studies are epidemiological evaluations in which the unit of analysis is populations, or groups of people, rather than individuals. 1 They can answer important questions such as the question posed above that cannot easily be answered …

Chapter 6. Ecological studies - BMJ

https://www.bmj.com/about-bmj/resources-readers/publications/epidemiology-uninitiated/6-ecological-studies

Most epidemiological investigations of aetiology are observational. They look for associations between the occurrence of disease and exposure to known or suspected …

Ecologic studies in epidemiology: concepts, principles, …

https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/7639884/

An ecologic study focuses on the comparison of groups, rather than individuals; thus, individual-level data are missing on the joint distribution of variables within groups. …

Cohort study: What are they, examples, and …

https://www.medicalnewstoday.com/articles/281703

Cohort studies are a type of research design that follow groups of people over time. Researchers use …

Ecological study - Wikipedia

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ecological_study

Ecologic Studies in Epidemiology: Concepts, …

https://www.annualreviews.org/doi/pdf/10.1146/annurev.pu.16.050195.000425

Ecologic studies have been conducted by social scientists for more than a century (l4a) and have been used extensively by epidemiologists in many research areas. Nevertheless, …

The design, applications, strengths and weaknesses of …

https://www.healthknowledge.org.uk/public-health-textbook/research-methods/1a-epidemiology/descriptive-studies-ecological-studies

Ecological studies are a useful means of performing international comparisons and studying group-level effects (for example, the correlation between deaths rates from …

Study Design VI - Ecological Studies | Evidence-Based …

https://www.nature.com/articles/6400454

An ecological study is an observational study defined by the level at which data are analysed, namely at the population or group level, rather than individual level.

Use of ecological study designs for injury prevention

https://injuryprevention.bmj.com/content/11/1/2

This paper provides an overview of the ecological study design and its application to injury prevention. The advantages and disadvantages of ecological designs are described and …

Two Fundamental Types of Study …

https://sphweb.bumc.bu.edu/otlt/MPH-Modules/EP/EP713_DescriptiveEpi/EP713_DescriptiveEpi7.html

Ecological Studies (Correlational Studies) These studies are distinguished by the fact that the unit of observation is not a person; rather it is an entire …