Glossario di epidemiologia
Glossary of epidemiology

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Glossary of epidemiology

The COVID-19 pandemic faces the reader of scientific papers with a variety of epidemiologic terms, often not familiar to the reader. A further problem is due to the incomplete standardization of those terms, that can assume partly different meaning in different settings. These problems can hamper the correct comprehension and interpretation of the data presented. These considerations represented the spur to formulate a glossary of the more common epidemiological terms, mainly using the COVID-19 epidemics as example, but taking into account also other infectious diseases and chronic non-infectious diseases as well. To facilitate the reading of the vast majority of papers, which are written in English, the corresponding English terms are reported.

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