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Table of ContentsINTRODUCTION...........................................................................................................................3TASK...............................................................................................................................................3Type of epidemiological study used...........................................................................................3Determine association being investigated, exposure and two main outcomes of interest thatwere measured.............................................................................................................................4Process used to allocate individuals to IPTi or no- IPTi recognising different levels ofselection.......................................................................................................................................4Methods used to select people for data collection to analyse the paper......................................5Evaluation of exposed and unexposed things.............................................................................5Results of 'intention to treat' and 'per protocol'...........................................................................6Appropriate measure of association............................................................................................7Different results shown by the given two methods.....................................................................7Study design and methods of evaluation with benefits and limitations......................................8CONCLUSION................................................................................................................................9REFERENCES..............................................................................................................................10
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INTRODUCTIONEpidemiology refers to a branch of medicine in which incidence, distribution, possiblecontrol of disease and other factors relevant to health are included. However, it include toanalyse the reason behind occurrence of disease in which epidemiological information can beused male an appropriate plan with strategies to prevent sickness (Jones, Harris, Tate andFerguson, 2015). The present report will focus on types of study use in given article and methodsused for selecting respondents for gathering desired amount of data for analysis. Moreover, itwill also include two methods named as intention to treat and per protocol along with theirbenefits as well as limitations.TASKType of epidemiological study usedThe epidemiological study can be described as study and analysis of distribution as wellas determinants of situations related to health & disease in specific group of people. It is aneffective branch which provide support to investigators carrying out out research in health care inorder to develop methodology utilised in clinical investigation, public health and related tobiological sciences. Meanwhile, there are various fields of epidemiological study which consistdisease surveillance, environmental aspects, forensic, transmission and many more. It addition tothis, the epidemiological study include several types including case series, case control studies,cohort studies and outbreak investigation (Rössler, Junge, Chomiak, Dvorak and Faude, 2016). In context of given article, it has been analysed that it is based on intervention studiestype of epidemiological study as it select group of infants suffering from malaria and intermittent
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