Population study is an
interdisciplinary field
Interdisciplinarity or interdisciplinary studies involves the combination of multiple academic disciplines into one activity (e.g., a research project). It draws knowledge from several other fields like sociology, anthropology, psychology, ec ...
of
scientific study
Scientific study is a kind of study that involves scientific theory, scientific models, experiments and physical situations. It may refer to:
*Scientific method, a body of techniques for investigating phenomena, based on empirical or measurabl ...
that uses various
statistical methods
Statistics (from German: ''Statistik'', "description of a state, a country") is the discipline that concerns the collection, organization, analysis, interpretation, and presentation of data. In applying statistics to a scientific, industria ...
and models to analyse, determine, address, and predict population challenges and trends from data collected through various
data collection
Data collection or data gathering is the process of gathering and measuring information on targeted variables in an established system, which then enables one to answer relevant questions and evaluate outcomes. Data collection is a research com ...
methods such as
population census
A census is the procedure of systematically acquiring, recording and calculating information about the members of a given population. This term is used mostly in connection with national population and housing censuses; other common censuses incl ...
, registration method,
sampling, and some other systems of data sources.
In the various fields of healthcare, a population study is a study of a group of individuals taken from the general
population
Population typically refers to the number of people in a single area, whether it be a city or town, region, country, continent, or the world. Governments typically quantify the size of the resident population within their jurisdiction using a ...
who share a common characteristic, such as age,
sex
Sex is the trait that determines whether a sexually reproducing animal or plant produces male or female gametes. Male plants and animals produce smaller mobile gametes (spermatozoa, sperm, pollen), while females produce larger ones ( ova, of ...
, or health condition. This group may be studied for different reasons, such as their
response to a drug or
risk of getting a disease.
References
External links
Population studyentry in the public domain NCI Dictionary of Cancer Terms
Clinical research
Epidemiology
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