… We define a descriptive epidemiologic question as one that aims to quantify some feature
of the health of a population and, often, to characterize the distribution of that feature across …

Epilepsy is a chronic disease experienced by millions and a cause of substantial morbidity
and mortality. This review summarizes prevalence and incidence studies of epilepsy that …

… Descriptive epidemiology may also suffer from a lack of … the importance of descriptive
epidemiology in responding to serious … of descriptive epidemiology in the epidemiology curriculum …

Data are reviewed on the descriptive epidemiology of commonly occurring DSM-IV mental
disorders in the United States. These disorders are highly prevalent: Roughly half the …

… in an epidemiological study do or do not have asthma, the population epidemiology of asthma
… However, there have been a number of epidemiological studies repeated in more or less …

… This is the largest available epidemiological study on anophthalmia and microphthalmia.
The prevalence at birth was 1.50 per 10 000, varying between 0.92 and 2.29 between registers …

Studies based on the Rochester Epidemiology Project medical records-linkage system
have provided important insights into the epidemiology of epilepsy. The incidence of all …

… descriptive epidemiology was long regarded as simply a first, rather crude, step in the
exploration of an epidemiological … Instead, it was up to analytical epidemiology, a more precise …

… Knowledge of the descriptive epidemiology of breast cancer is … characteristic of the descriptive
epidemiology of breast cancer … to our understanding of the epidemiology of breast cancer. …

… epidemiological variations in mental health arise partially from social support differences. …
epidemiology of perceived social support was found to correspond closely to the epidemiology …