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 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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