Micro-post #22: The Bradford Hill Criteria (and a couple Intro to Epidemiology videos) [Basic Knowledge Stuff #]

Sometimes, these micro-posts are also going to just be lists or short definitions of cultural literacy-kind of things. Here's one of those.

The Bradford Hill criteria is a group of principles used to determine causal relationships, specifically in epidemiology to better gauge the causes and spread of infectious disease. I've also include a pair of videos from Crash Course that serve as Intros to Epidemiology, which is interesting in itself (the first is from Crash Course: Public Health, the second from Crash Course: Outbreak Science).

The criteria, as pulled from a paper by AB Hill from RTI Health Solutions, are the following:

1. Strength

2. Consistency

3. Specificity

4. Temporality

5. Biologic Gradiant

6. Plausibility

7. Coherence

8. Experimental Evidence

9. Analogy