What is an epidemiological study? Why does the state want to get possibly inaccurate information about groups of people, especially if people can be told for sure if they are healthy or ill?
An epidemiological study is a study of groups of people instead of individuals. This type of study asks questions that cannot be answered by studying individuals. Instead, the researcher tries to see if groups of people have patterns of illness or injury and compare these patterns to other people who do not have the same risk of exposure. An epidemiological study is not designed to say why an individual person might be ill since the study is designed to look at patterns in a population. Once an epidemiological study is done there may be clues to look for in individual persons. Q: I learned that a health study will be done close to foam producing plants, using air monitoring and blood monitoring technologies that are imprecise and have never been used in this way, with members of the community before. Why not wait for better ways to do it that will be more reliable, instead of scaring people and not being able to provide precise information? A: While it is true that North Carolina Divis
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