31 Aug Cross Sectional Study Designs,
Part 1
A) Describe the common characteristics and design of acase-control study.
B) Discuss the three important features when it comes toselecting cases and controls and identify a situation when one of these mightbe violated.
c)Discuss the limitations of using questionnaires fordetermining exposure status and provide examples of alternative strategies forcollecting this information in a case-control study.
Part 2
A) Discuss the strengths and weaknesses of cross-sectionalstudies and examples of how they can be “descriptive” or”analytic” study designs.
B) Discuss an example of a disease where survival couldinfluence the association between a possible exposure and the disease when measuredwith a cross-sectional study.
six references are required for this assignment
