Biostatistics in Population Health Research

Biostatistics in Population Health Research
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Biostatistics in Population Health Research
Biostatistics is critical in identifying the best approaches in deploying resources that can be used to treat vulnerable individuals and populations. For instance, arresting an epidemic would require not only identifying the best approaches in treating the disease, but also controlling the spread of infections in the population through effective resource allocation (Schwaid, 2017). Through these approaches, the fields of biostatistics and epidemiology have remained to be the cornerstone of preventive medicine and public health.
Epidemiology plays an important role in researching and addressing health challenges within a population through the use of scientific, mathematics, and social practices in monitoring disease trends. These practices also offer interventions that can be employed in preventing emerging diseases. For instance, cross-sectional research helps investigators in having a snapshot of the population under study. However, such an approach of extrapolating population findings to an individua...