Environmental Toxicology Diary

To learn about toxicology, we have to know about the methods used to obtain information associated about specific chemical exposure. Thus, it is necessary to learn at least two very crucial methods which are epidemilogy and toxicology studies.

There are several sources to gain information used to establish acceptable exposure levels. They are chemical analogies, […]

While selection bias happen because of the way we select the object study to build relationship or association between a suspected causative agent and disease or illness, observation bias is focused to the bias of the means of getting information about the study. This kind of bias is generally involved when you are doing retrospective […]

The most important thing for environmental toxicology study is to establish the association between a suspected causative agent and associated disease or illnesses. Several methods have been described in epidemiology and toxicology study. You have learned about fundamental difference between epiedemiology study and toxicology study. Now we will learn about one factor that should be […]

Opposite with retrospective epidemiology, prospective epidemiology highlights the current and ongoing investigation of a specific effect observed associated with a causative agent. So this is a looking forward study to determine the relationship between a causative factor with the disease or illness.

Similar with retrospective, prospective epidemiology will take two groups of study. One group […]

You have already learned the basic and definition of epidemiology study from previous post. There are two kinds of methods available for epidemiology study, retrospective and prospective study. These two methods provide a very different approach and behavior during the study. This post will only describe characteristic of epidemiology retrospective study.

One keynote you should […]