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case study
n.
1. A detailed analysis of a person or group, especially as a model of medical, psychiatric, psychological, or social phenomena.
2. An exemplary or cautionary model; an instructive example.

case study,
a detailed analysis of a person or group with a particular disease or condition, noting characteristics of the disease or condition. Case studies are often used to call attention to new diseases or to diseases entering new populations.

case study
Anecdotal report, single case report Epidemiology An uncontrolled–prospective or retrospective observational study involving an intervention and outcome in a single Pt


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Over time, we plan to introduce more case studies into the theory test to assess candidates' understanding of what they have learned.
This paper examines recent case studies of transitional settlement and shelter in order to provide examples of implementing transitional settlement and shelter as a process and how to build more capacity for such programmes.
They cover responding to pandemics with severe acute respiratory syndrome (SARS) as a case study, preparing for pandemics with avian influenza as a case study, accessing affordable medicines, conducting campaigns against chronic illness, with polio and tobacco as case studies, and defining future directions in global health governance.
 
 
 
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