HE 607: Advanced Microeconomics II

• Ch-1: Static games of Complete Information

• General Definitions: Action profile, Information set, Strategy Set/Space/Profile (see 1st Sheet)

• Normal form of representation, Extensive form of representation and method of solving a strategy game (IESDS), Limitations  (see 1st Sheet)

•  Nash Equilibrium and Proof of the two propositions (from book)

• Cournot Duopoly,

• Bertrand Model of Duopoly (see here)

• The problem of common and mixed Strategy.

• Ref: Robert Gibbons

• Ch-2: Dynamic Games of Complete Information- 

  • • General Definitions: Extensive form of representation of a game, Rules of the dynamic game, Information Set, How to represent an information set from a game tree, Backward induction Game, (see class note)

    • Subgame Perfect Nash equilibrium is a sub set of Nash Equilibrium- Explain.

    • Stackelberg model of Duopoly and Comparison with Cournot model

    • Wage and Employment in a unionized firm

    • Rubinstein's alternative offer Bargaining Game

      • For finite case

      • For infinite horizon (see class note)

    • Tournament game

    • Repeated Game & Infinitely Repeated Game

      • Derive the proposition states that “If the stage game G has a unique Nash equilibrium then, for any finite T, the repeated game G (T) has a unique subgame perfect outcome: the Nash equilibrium of G is played in every stage”. 

      • i) Show whether both players in a repeated game will play the trigger strategy in the outcome. ii) Argue that such an outcome is the sub game perfect outcome of the whole game. (see assignment collection folder)

      • Can (A,A) be a part of the SPNE? (see class note: Page 72-73)

  • Ch- 3: Static Games of Incomplete Information

    • 3.1.A: An Example: Cournot Competition under Assymmetric Information (Page 144-146 hard copy)- [see class note]

  • Ref: Robert Gibbons 

+ Full Class Lecture Note_Tamanna 

+ Questions Collection

HE 608: Economic Evaluation of Health Care

Before Mid-Term Exam:

• Steps of Conducting Economic Evaluation- slides

• Costing of Healthcare- slides

• Discounting- slides

• Annuitization, CEA (mathematical problem) & Extended dominance_Part one- slides

• CEA, Cost Effectiveness Ratio & Extended dominance_Part two- slides

• QALY (mathematical problems only)- slides

• Disability Adjusted Life Years (DALY)  (mathematical problems only)- slides

• QALY & DALY_more exercise- slides 

• QALY & DALY Comparison- slides; and provided materials

• Decision Model_Part One- slides

• Decision Model_Part Two- slides; and provided material

• Markov Model- slides; and provided material

After Mid-Term Exam:

• CBA- slides ; and provided materials

• RCT- slides; and provided materials

• Economic Evaluation: Implications of national health policy, strategy & plan- slides

• Health Technology Assessment (HTA)- slides and provided materials

+ Class Lecture Note_Tamanna 

+ Previous Questions 

HE 609: Health Sector Reform

Probable Syllabus

• What reforms are needed in the following areas in Bangladesh- [reading materials]

  • Community Clinics (CC)

  • Primary health care in rural and urban areas

  • Emergency care

  • Secondary and tertiary levels of healthcare 

• What are the challenges of healthcare financing to achieve universal healthcare coverage in Bangladesh? [reading materials]

  • Explain the strategies needed to overcome the challenges.

• Discuss the problems identified by the National Insurance Policy 2014. [reading materials]

  • Explain the strategies recommended for overcoming these problems.

• Explain Bismarck and Beveridge's models of healthcare financing. [Self-preparation]

  • Do you think that these two models are converging? Provide evidence for your argument.

  • Where does Bangladesh's healthcare financing system belong between these two models? Explain.

• Explain the recent health sector reform in India. [reading materials]

  • What lessons can Bangladesh learn from the health sector reform of India?

•  Explain the recent health sector reform and UHC planning in Thailand. [reading materials]

  • What lessons can Bangladesh learn from the health sector reform & UHC planning of Thailand?

•  Explain the recent health sector reform and UHC planning in Indonesia. [reading materials]

  • What lessons can Bangladesh learn from the health sector reform & UHC planning of Indonesia?

•  Explain the recent health sector reform and UHC planning in Turkey.  [reading materials]

  • What lessons can Bangladesh learn from the health sector reform & UHC planning of Turkey?

HE 610: Advanced Topics in Development Economics

• What is development? [click here]

• Growth, poverty and development  [click here]

• Population and development  [click here]

• Gender, population and growth  [click here]

• Education and growth  [click here]

• Human Development Index (HDI)  [click here]

• Urbanization and development  [click here]

• Corruption and development  [click here]

• Randomized Controlled Trial (RCT)  [click here] 

+ Class Lecture Note_Tamanna 

+ Previous Questions 

HE 611: Research Methodology

HE 612: Project Development

HE 601: Advanced Microeconomics

• 1. What is Microeconomics [Market Failure and the Scope of Public Policy]

• References: 

  • • Lect 1_What is Microeconomics

    • Arrow, K.J. "The Organization of Economic Activity", in Public Expenditure and Policy Analysis, eds., Haveman and Margolis (Markham, 1970)

• 2. Preferences [Preference Relations & Choice Rules]

• References: 

  • Lect 2_Preferences and Choice

  • Ch-01 (Andrew Mas-colell)- Click here

  • Ch-06 (Hal R Varian)- Click here

• Solve of 1st Class Test - Click here

• Solution to problems 1.B1, 1.B3, 1.B4, I.C1 and 1.C2 

• References: 

  • Ch-01 (Andrew Mas-colell)_Page 15- Click here

• 3. Consumer Choice [Consumption Sets, Budget, Demand Functions, Comparative Statics, and WARP the Law of Demand]

• References: 

  • Lecture 3_Consumer Choice (up to slide 27)

  • Ch-02 (Andrew Mas-colell)- Click here

  • Ch-07 & 08 (Hal R Varian)- Click here

• 4. Production and Cost Theory [Production Sets, Profit Maximization and Cost Minimization, Cost and Supply Curves, Aggregation]

• References: 

  • HE 601_Production_01

  • HE 601_Production_02

  • Ch-05 (Andrew Mas-colell)- Click here

  • Ch-01 to 05 (Hal R Varian)- Click here

• 5. Math Appendix (Less Important)

• References: 

  • Continous function and convex set_ Page 943-944 (Andrew Mas-colell)- Click here

  • Convex set & Convex Hull_ Page 946-947 (Andrew Mas-colell)- Click here

• 6.  General Equilibrium (Very Important)

  • General Equilibrium- Part I

  • General Equilibrium- Part II

• 7. Chapter- 15 (Andrew Mas-colell)- (Very Very Important)

  • Pages- 515-525

• 8. Assignment

  • Tamanna's Assignment

• Important Topics & Suggestions

  • Preference Relations & Consumer choices/choice rules

  • Weak axioms of revealed preferences, Relation between weak axioms and revealed preferences, 

  • Walrasian budget set & its assumptions 

  • Walras law, Lifetime consumption choice, Wealth Expansion path 

  • Definition of- Revealed preferences, Utility Function, Consumption set, Budget set etc.

  • Definition of- Production set. Properties of prosuction set.

  • Definition of- profit function, cost function, objective of firms etc.

  • Proof of- Shephard's Lemma, Hotelling's lemma, Convexity of profit function, concavity of cost function

  • Properties of- cost function, profit function

  • Derivation of profit function/supply function/ conditional factor demand function/cost function (Math)

  • Figures of different cost curves

  • Definition of-  Allocation, feasible allocation, pareto efficient allocation, competitive equilibrium etc.

  •  Finding equilibrium from different preference relations (Math) 

  • Different conditions and figures of Edgeworth Box

  •  1st & 2nd Welfare theorem

  • Finding Feasible allocation, Pareto efficient allocation, Equilibrium allocation from different scenarios (Math)

+ Class Lecture Note_Tamanna

+ Class Lecture Note- Jasim (After Mid)

+ Previous Questions 

HE 602: Advanced Macroeconomics

• 1. The Solow Growth Model (10-24 pages- David Romer)

• 2. The Ramsey-Cass-Koopmans Model (49-60 pages - David Romer)

• 3. The Diamond Model- Video link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MuNxpstRUrw

• 4.  Ch-3 Endogeneous Growth Model (95-104 pages_David Romer_1st Edition)- Click here

• 5. Ch-7 Consumption (309-312; 324-327 pages_David Romer_1st Edition)- Click here

• 6. Ch 8 Investment (349-350; 352-362 pages_David Romer_1st Edition)- Click here

• References: 

  • (Advanced Macroeconomics_David Romer_1st Edition)- Click here

  • (Advanced Macroeconomics_David Romer_4th Edition)- Click here

+ Class Lecture Note_Tamanna

HE 603: Advanced Health Economics

• Nahid Mam's Syllabus:

• 1. Introduction of Health Care Financing & Existed systems in different countries -  1st pptx file 

• 2. Universal Health Coverage (UHC) - 2nd pptx file

• 3. Different Health Care Financing System - 3rd pptx file

• 4. Equity In Health care - 4th pptx file

• 5. Health Care Financing and Importance of Resource Allocation - 5th pptx file

• 6. National Health Account - 6th pptx file 

• Moriam Mam's Syllabus:

• 7. Ch- 15 full (SID & SUV - very important) - (Folland 8th edition)

• 8.  Ch-16: Pages 420-424 included; Pages 425-428 (excluded); 429 (from excess demand) to 433 (before Medical education issues...) [Folland 8th edition]

• 9.  From Jay Bhattacharya's book- 5.2 Physician wages (83-88 pages) and 97 page- 11 no problem (online class)- Click here  

• 10. Hospital - Click Here (Less Important)

  • What does a hospital do? 

  • Models of Hospital Behavior

• 11. Economic Theory of Hospital Competition

  • All slides - Click here

  • Evidence on hospital competition (pages 226-228) - Click here

• 12. Health System Responsiveness (HSR)

  • What is HSR? - Click here

  • Domains of HSR (page 10_table 1.1) - Click here

  • Measurement - Click here 

• 13. Quality of Healthcare

  • Definition (pages 30-31) - Click here 

  •  6 dimensions (pages 645-646_table 45.1) - Click here

  • Evidence of poor quality & the economic argument for good quality (pages 16-17) - Click here 

  • Framework for measuring quality (page 646) - Click here

  • Types of quality indicators (pages 37-39_table 3.2) - Click here

  • Data sources for measuring quality (pages 48-53_table 3.6) - Click here

  • Uses of Quality measures (page 648) - Click here

  • Strategies to improve quality of care (pages 19-28) - Click here  

+ Class Lecture Note_Tamanna

HE 604: Public Health and Epidemiology

Advanced Epidemiology:

• 1. Designing Infectious Disease Models (Compartmental Model) - Click here

• 2. Tutorials_Compartmental Models - Click here

• 3. Sampling Techniques - Click here

• 4.  Study Designs: An Overview_Abridged Version - Click here

• 5. Analysis Plan_Excel Sheet - Click here

• 6.  Systematic Review - Click here

• 7.  Causality - Click here

• 8. Bias, Confounding and Interactions.... - Click here

Public Health:

• 9. Lecture 1: Introduction to Public Health - Click here

- Hallmarks of Public Health (Slide: 21-29)

- Core activities of Public Health (Slide: 30-31)

- Core functions of Public Health (Slide: 32)

• 10. Lecture 2: Public Health Ethics - Click here [Not Important]

- Specific requirements needed to meet the ethical principles, including Informed consent (Slide: 16-25)

• 11. Lecture 3: Evidence-based Public Health - Click here

- Types of evidence (Slide-3)

- Process of evidence-based practice (Slide:8)

- Key characteristics of Evidence-based decision-making (Slide:16)

- Analytic tools and approaches to enhance the uptake of evidence-based Public Health (Slide: 17-18), especially economic evaluation (Slide: 27-28), and Health Impact Assessment (Slide: 29)

- Potential barriers and solutions for the use of Evidence-Based Decision-making in Public Health (Slide: 32)

• 12. Lecture 4: Social and behavioural sciences in Public Health - Click here

- Socio-ecological framework (Slide: 7-9)

- Sources of Public Health Data (Slide: 14)

• 13. Lecture 5: Epidemiological transition and Global Burden of Disease - Click here

- Epidemiological transition (Slide: 3-10)

- DALY (Slide: 19-22, 24-25)

• 14. Lecture 6: MDG, SDG, UHC - Click here [Not Important]

- Strengths and weaknesses of MDG (Slide: 6)

- Dimensions of SDG (Slide: 17)

- MDG v/s SDG (Slide: 19-20) 

• 15. Global Health - Click here

-  How does global health relate to  public health and international health? (Slide 10-11) 

- Health impacts of globalisation: conceptual frameworks (Slide 39-43, especially, 40, 42-43) 

- Current challenges of global health (Slide 44) 

- Post-2015 Health Challenges in Asia and Pacific (Slide 46-49) 

- Key Actions to Address Remaining MDG Health Challenges and the Post-2015 Development Agenda (Slide 50). Short description from the reference material is recommended, Section 3 (3.1-3.5, key messages)

• 16. Outbreak & Emergency management - Click here

- Steps of outbreak investigation (slide 7) 

- Emergency management cycle (slide 14) 

Important Suggestion:

1. From Compartmental Model:  

• Tutiorial থেকে প্রশ্ন আসতে পারে। দুটো মডেল কম্বাইন্ড করে প্রশ্ন দিতে পারে। 

2. From Sampling Techniques: 

• 31 no slide (last slide) এর ছক রিলেটেড প্রশ্ন আসতে পারে। 

• প্রশ্নে কোনো একটা situation দেয়া থাকবে সেটার study design এ কোন ধরণের sampling techniques use করা যেতে পারে সেগুলো explain করতে হতে পারে। for example: Family planning methods utilization নিয়ে study design এ যে ধরণের sampling techniques use করা যেতে পারে সেগুলো ব্যাখ্যা করতে হবে।

3. From Study Design:

• ITT vs Per Protocol Analysis 

• Advantages & Disadvantages of ITT/Per Protocol Analysis etc.

• Phases of clinical trial

• Quasi-experimental design

• Hierarchy of scientific evidence 

4. From Analysis Plan_Excel Sheet:

• সব situation analysis related প্রশ্ন হবে। যেমন:

  • Anaemia-related Study Design for Male & Female

  • Relation between protein intake during pregnancy and childbirth weight.

  • Relation between Mother's Hemoglobin concentration & Childbirth weight.

  • Study on HIV related factors awareness in rural areas

  • Health care seeking behavior in rural areas 

• এই গুলোর মধ্যে যে কোনো একটা study design এর situation বা basic কিছু info দেয়া থাকবে, নিজের মতো করে outcome variables define করে কোন ধরণের statistical/logical analysis করলে ভালো হবে সেটা explain করতে হবে। (প্রত্যেকের উত্তর আলাদা হতে পারে, যে যেভাবে ব্যাখ্যা করবে সেটা যুক্তিসঙ্গত হলে সেটাই সঠিক উত্তর)

• Interpretation from given table

5. From Systematic Review:

• All meta-analyses are systematic reviews, but all systematic reviews are not meta-analyses

• Steps of systematic review

• Key elements of systematic review

6. From Causality: 

• Types of causality

• Guidelines for causal interferences

7. From Bias:

• What is bias?

• Chance v/s Bias

• Types of bias

• What are the types of bias in cross-sectional/case-control/cohort studies?

• What are the types of bias in experimental studies?

• Controlling for information bias

• Box 15.1 & 15.2 (Ref: Leon Gordis)

• Criteria of Confounding (math)

• Remedies of confounding

• Last 3 slides

+ Class Lecture Note_Tamanna (Before mid)

+ Class Lecture Note_Tamanna (After mid)

+ Previous Questions

HE 605: Applied Econometric

Not updated

HE 606: Health Policy And Planning

Not updated

HE 406: Economics of Health Care III 

• Why Health Care is different?

  • Sheet 01: 1.7- Is health care different?  [click here]                                                    

  • Sheet 02: What makes the market for health care different?

• Demand for Health Care

  • Sheet 02: 2.3.1- The Determinants of Demand

• Economics of Nutrition                                                                                   

  • 1st Online Class (held on June 1)

  • Online class recording link- https://drive.google.com/file/d/1nR8uVjvvsyOb9Osnb94QjYPMUtH6WTAg/view                                                                            

  • Study Materials- Bitler.pdf (topics covered in the online class)        

• Nutrition and Development                                                                          

  • 2nd online Class (held on June 5)

  • Online class recording link- https://drive.google.com/file/d/1o7B65Tr5iF3gCpHqxK6zRuca6PFhRUMi/view                                                          

  • Study Materials- Click here (topics covered in the online class)      

•  Important Topics from Nutrition:

  • Why is nutrition needed for health?   

  • How does nutrition influence SDG? or Nutrition vs SDG

  • Why govt. intervention is needed in nutritional issues?

  • How can govt. take effective interventions for nutrition?

  • Why malnutrition should be reduced? 

  • Why malnutrition persists in many food-secure households?

  • Three myths about nutrition

  • The window of opportunity for addressing undernutrition

  • The vicious cycle of poverty and malnutrition

• Cost Benefit Analysis                                                                            

  • Basic concept (Hamid sir's Slides could be useful)

  • Sheet 03: An Introduction to Stated and Revealed Preference Methods

  • Sheet 04: Using Conjoint Analysis to Assess Women's Preferences for Miscarriage Management (Only the "stages in a conjoint analysis study" section)

  • Sheet 05: The Groundwork for Economic Analysis (brief concepts of the basic steps) 

• Population Growth and Economic Development

  • Chapter 6 (Book: Economic Development by Michael P. Todaro)

  • Important topics: Demographic transition, The Malthusian population trap, and The Microeconomic Household theory of Fertility.

• Efficiency Analysis in Healthcare

  • Allocative efficiency tool: HIPtool; website link: http://hiptool.org/ (not important for xm)

  • Sheet 06: Chapter 50: Health System Efficiency: Concepts (Basic concepts of Technical efficiency, Deterministic & Stochastic methods, Free Disposal Hull, and Data Envelopment Analysis)

  • Sheet 07: OR-Notes Data Envelopment Analysis (before "Recap")

  • Sheet 08: Data Envelopment Analysis-I (Full)

• Health Inequity/Inequality 

  • Definition, Inequity vs Inequality, Why conduct health inequality monitoring? (Reference: Health Inequity)

  • Simple Measures of Health Inequality (Reference: Simple Measures of Health Inequality )

  • Complex measure of Health Inequality (Reference: Complex measure of Health Inequality)

• Non-profit Firm [click here]

  • Why do non-profit firms exist and why they are in prevalent?

  • Non-profit hospital's behaviour.

• Health Insurance (Sheba Ma'am)

  • Chapter:08- Demand and Supply of Health Insurance (Reference: Folland's book; page 148-163)- to get the pdf [click here]  

+ Class Note's Link

• Tamanna's complete class note

• Jasim's complete class note

HE 407: Structure and Management of Health Sector 

• Disease cycle [click here]

  • Definition, stages' name, and figure 

• Disease theory  [click here]

  • Communicable disease

    • Germ theory

    • Epidemiological Triad

    • Contagion theory

  • Non Communicable disease

    • Web of causation

    • Multi-factoral causation

• Structure development of historical perspective [click here]

  • Bhore committee

• Important issues related to health [click here]

  • Priority wise issues related to health (Only definition)

• Better coverage initiatives

  • Health related SDGs (3.1 and 3.2 only) 

  • Define HFA, UHC (three dimension), ESP (components), and PHC (elements and principles)

• Structure and organogram [click here]

  • Utilization of health care facilities utilization indicator of health care (population wise pyramid)

  • Health care delivery indicator (administrative tier)

  • Health care services delivery system networking flowchart (central to satellite)

• Implementation authority's function [click here]

• Regulatory body's functions. [click here]

HE 408: Pharmacoeconomics

• Pharmaceutical Sector Overview and Basic Concepts (pptx-01)

• What would be the price of a patented drug after entering the new generic of that drug into the market? (click here)

• Patent System_TRIPS_Sector Challenges (pptx-02)

• Promotional Activities (pptx-03)

• Vertical Integration (pptx-04)

• National Drug Policy (study materials)

• WHO pricing policies (study materials)

• Economic evaluation in pharmacoeconomics (pptx-07)

• Assignment Collection (click here)

+ Class Note's Link

• Tamanna's complete class note

• Jasim's complete class note

HE 409: Macroeconomics II

• Chapter 14: Exchange Rates and the International Monetary System (Reference: Froyen 10th edition; page 272-295) [click here]

• Chapter 15: Monetary and Fiscal Policy in the Open Economy (Reference: Froyen 10th edition + Michael Melvin 8th edition)

  • • The Mundell-Fleming Model (Section 15.1 from chapter-15 of Froyen) [click here]

    • Perfect capital Mobility (pptx adapted from Melvin's book)

    • Monetary policy under fixed exchange rate and perfect mobility (ptx adapted from Melvin's book)

    • Fiscal policy under fixed exchange rate and perfect mobility (ptx adapted from Melvin's book)                         

    • Monetary policy under floating exchange rate and perfect mobility (ptx adapted from Melvin's book)

    • Fiscal policy under floating exchange rate and perfect mobility (ptx adapted from Melvin's book)

    •  To get the PPTX file [click here]

    • To get the full chapter of Melvin [click here]

    • Imperfect Capital Mobility (basic concept) ( Section 15.2 from chapter-15 of Froyen) [click here]

    • Online class recording link- https://drive.google.com/file/d/1weasOoQoVCcZXFThWWy4LuhFtb9z62Vc/view

• Chapter 16: Understanding Consumer Behavior (Reference: Mankiw 8th edition; page 465-487) [click here]

  • Online class recording link- https://drive.google.com/file/d/1ChmKKeeo2k4tL_ZAjfxynV6C5_isWuVZ/view

• Chapter 15: Investment 

  • 1st Sheet-M A Taslim [click here]

  • Sheet on Inventory Investment [click here]

• Chapter 10: Output, Inflation, and Unemployment: Alternative Views

  • Reference: Froyen 10th edition; [click here]

+ Class Note's Link

• Tamanna's complete class note

• Jasim's complete class note

HE 410: Epidemiology

• 01. Introduction to Epidemiology (1st pptx)

  • Epidemiological Approach (Asking questions & Making Comparisons)- [Slides 19-22]

  • Preventative Approach (Difference between Population-based & High-Risk Approach, with examples)- [Slides 25-26]

  • Epidemiology: Practice (Logical Sequence)- [Sildes 30]

• 02. Basic tools in Epidemiology (2nd pptx)

  • Measures of disease frequency (basic concept of rate, ratio and proportion)

  • Why are rates important and useful?- [Slide 15]

  • What is the relation between Cumulative Incidence (CI) and Incidence Density (ID)? (Super important)- [Slides 35-37.]

  • Compare and Contrast between incidence and prevalence. - [Slides 43, 44 and 46.]

  • Mathematical problems on Prevalence, CI and incidence rate-  [Solve Mid and previous year's questions]

  •  Tutorial 1 (for math: especially incidence and prevalence math) & Solve Mid-question. 

  • 1st Tutorial PDF file

• 03. Measures of association (or effect) (3rd pptx)

  • Relative Risk (math)- Solve Mid or CT questions.

  • Odds Ratio (Math)- Solve Mid or CT questions.

  • Attributable Risk (AR) & Population Attributable Risk (PAR) (Math)- Solve Mid question.

  • When is Odds Ratio (OD) a good approximation or estimate of Relative Risk (RR) in a case-control study?- From Leon Gordis (click here)

• 04. Measures of mortality (4th pptx)

  • Definiton and formula of all types of Measures of Mortality (Annual crude rate, proportionate mortality, Case-fatality, YPLL etc.)

  • For mathematical problems: Case-fatality, Cause-specific mortality or Annual Death rate, proportionate mortality etc.

  • Solve Mid & Previous year's questions.

• 05. Screening for diseases (5th pptx)

  • Lead time (as a Short note)

  • The principles of Screening

  • Criteria for screening test

  • Precision (repeatability or reliability) VS Validity (accruracy) explain with figure. (slides + Leon Gordis) [click here] 

  • Finding the diagnostic value of the positive case using Sensitivity, Specificity (Mathematical problem)- Solve previous year's question.

  • Youden’s J Statistic

  •  Discuss the trade-off between Sensitivity and Specificity of a test and explain in which cases we will use 

    • highly sensitive test 

    • highly specific test. [Slides 28-31]

• 06. Study design: An overview (6th pptx)

  • Classification or types of Epidemiological study. (chart)- [Silde 6]

  • Ecological Study or Ecological Fallacy. From Leon Gordis (click here)

  • Compare and contrast between cohort and case-control studies. From Leon Gordis (click here)

  • Case-control study design and Bias encountered in case-control study. [Slides 19 & 25]

  • Compare and contrast between Prospective and Retrospective cohort study.- [Slides 35-39]

  • Select the correct study design for the given situation/scenario. For example-

    • An epidemiologist wants to study a genetic factor in relation to risk of Diabetes mellitus. What should be the suitable study design(s) and why?- [Based on slide 42]

• Important Topics for Mathematical Problems

  • Find out Prevalence, Cumulative Incidence, and Incidence Rate- [tutorial + ct, mid (qs no 02) and same type questions from previous years]

  • Attack rate- (Eating/not eating Egg salad and Tuna- math)- [mid question no 03 and same type questions from previous years] [click here]

  • Finding Relative Risk (RR)- (Earplug math & 2x2 table formation)- [mid question no 04 and same type questions from previous years]

  • Find out Attributable Risk (AR) and Population Attributable Risk (PAR)-  [mid question no 05 (b) and same type questions from previous years]

  • Find out Cause-Specific mortality rate & Case-fatality rate- [mid question no 06 (b) and same type questions from previous years]

  • Finding Diagnostic predictive values using Baye's Theorem.

+ Class Note's Link

• Tamanna's complete class note

• Jasim's complete class note

+ Previous Years' Question

• Link- https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/1Tldx6LaZfa9FMfdTcXFX_Nt2Lwl6EnSt?usp=sharing

+ Assignment Solve

• Group-01

• Group-02

• Group-03