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Essays

- A pharmaceutical company has developed a new drug (X) for managing type 2 diabetes mellitus. It is hypothesized to be better than standard treatment.
- Decide which is best study design to test the efficacy of drug and describe the steps in detail.
- What is blinding and add a note on the advantages and disadvantages of this design.
- A study was done to find out association between blindness and diabetes mellitus. Among the 300 diabetics, 180 had blindness. Among 340 non-diabetics, 140 had blindness.
- What type of study is this?Describe the steps in conducting the studyAdvantages of this type of study
- Disadvantages of this type of study
- Epidemiology- 🏡 🏡 🏡 🏡 🏡
- Definition 🏡 🏡 🏡
- Classification/ Enumerate 🏡 🏡
- Uses
- Role In health and disease
- Types of analytical epidemiological studies 🏡
- Classify Study Designs
- Case Control study- 🏡
- Steps of conduct 🏡
- Describe in detail
- Features
- Various biases encountered
- Advantages 🏡
- Disadvantages 🏡
- Cohort Study-
- Steps of conduct
- Examples
- Randomised Control Trial-
- Plan and detail the steps of conducting a RCT for assessing the efficacy of a newer vaccine
- Add note on non-randomised trials
- Epidemiology- 🏡 🏡 🏡 🏡 🏡
- Definition 🏡 🏡 🏡
- Classify epidemiological study designs 🏡 🏡 🏡 🏡 🏡
- Case Control Study- 🏡 🏡
- Describe with an example 🏡 🏡
- Advantages
- Disadvantages
- Various biases that can occur
- Methods of presenting biases
- Uses of epidemiology 🏡
- Cohort Study-
- Elements
- Steps
- Merits
- Demerits
- Cohort Study Vs Case Control Study
- Randomised Control Trials- 🏡
- Describe the steps
- Write in detail
- Add note on Blinding
Short Notes

- Various biases in epidemiological studies
- Community Diagnosis
- Describe various sampling techniques used in selecting a sample population.
- Herd Immunity
- Modes of Disease Transmission with examples
- Randomised Control Trial (RCT) – Steps 🏡
- Epidemics–
- Types
- Steps in Investigation
- Modes of transmission of communicable disease
- Enlist the sources of epidemiological data and describe any two.
- Epidemiology-
- Uses
- Incidence and Prevalence 🏡
- Case Control Study-
- Draw a flow chart
- Migration studies in Epidemiology
- Cohort Study –
- Risk Measurements
- Relationship between Prevalence and Incidence/ Incidence and Prevalence 🏡🏡
- Epidemiological Triad🏡
- Cold Chain/ Cold Chain Maintenance at PHC Levels / Cold Chain equipment🏡 🏡
- Universal Immunisation Programme 🏡
- National Immunisation Schedule-🏡
- Newer Vaccines Introduced
- Relative Risk 🏡 🏡
- Attributable Risk 🏡
- Active Immunisation
- Odds Ratio/ Cross-Product Ratio- 🏡
- What Is it?
- Explain with example.
- Cohort
- Quarantine Vs Isolation
- Vaccination for international travellers
- Vaccine associated Paralytic Polio (VAPP)
- Adverse effects following immunisation
- Epidemic Curve with suitable example and diagram
- Steps in Investigation of an Epidemic Outbreak