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Definition: Descriptive epidemiology
Category: Social statistics
Descriptive epidemiology is the study of the occurrence of disease or other health-related characteristics in human populations usually concerned with the relationships of disease to basic variables, such as age, sex, race, ethnicity, geographic location, occupation and socio-economic measures. http://ec.europa.eu/eurostat/ramon/statmanuals/files/SeriesF_84_EN.pdf
Source:
United Nations, "Handbook on Training in Civil Registration and Vital Statistics Systems", Studies in Methods, Series F, No. 84, New York, 2002
United Nations, "Handbook on Training in Civil Registration and Vital Statistics Systems", Studies in Methods, Series F, No. 84, New York, 2002
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