Learn why effective risk communication in public health matters and where you can get started in learning how to better communicate research evidence.
The MEDICS initiative aims to ensure a fundamental level of medical statistics and risk communication for medical students. Lathan Liou, founder of MEDICS, invites S4BE students to get involved.
Confused about Hazard Ratios and their confidence intervals? This blog provides a handy tutorial.
“This treatment lowers your high risk of heart attack considerably”. Wait, what is “risk”? This post explains you a definition of risk that is useful to understand in health-related questions.
Know Your Chances: Understanding Health Statistics is one of the few easily digestible statistics books that teaches anyone the most basic principles and concepts how to question and see the reality behind health news, hype, claims and ads.
Sean reviews ‘What is Evidence Based Medicine and Why Should I care?’, an article for students and healthcare professionals which covers Evidence-Based Medicine from first principles to medical statistics in the course of one free paper.
Revealing the truth behind rates, ratios and risk with QMP statistics tutorials. This is one of a series that helps with understanding of statistics and study design.
Understanding uncertainty is a site from the Winton programme based at the University of Cambridge, UK, that encourage healthy criticism of the statistics the media gives us.
David explains risk and number needed to treat using an article from the New England Journal of Medicine
A review of an evaluating risk online course for 11 – 16 year olds, by our youngest blogger Liv!
Beginners often get confused with odds ratio and relative risk, which are almost used in same sense.
A simple way to understand both.
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