Question: 1. Explain key measures of mortality, including proportionate mortality and years of potential life lost. What can be learned from these specific measures?
2. Discuss positive and negative predictive value in epidemiology. Why is this concept so important in our field?
3. Explain key measures of mortality, including mortality rates and case-fatality. What can be learned from these specific measures?
4. Direct age adjustment is a very important aspect of epidemiology, helping us to understand the true meaning of the mortality data that we study. How do we perform direct age adjustment?
Why is this adjustment so important for interpretation of mortality data in our field?
Gordis, L. (2014). Epidemiology (5th ed.). Philadelphia, PA: Saunders.