Case-Control Studies

Overview

Case-control studies are a type of observational research design widely used in epidemiology and public health to investigate the relationship between an exposure and an outcome. In this design, individuals who have a particular outcome, such as a disease (the cases), are compared with individuals who do not have it (the controls), and the two groups are examined to see how their past exposures differ. This approach is efficient for studying conditions and for identifying factors associated with disease, and it is a key tool for generating evidence about risk factors and associations. Case-control studies fall within the scope of Public Health International, which addresses the methods and findings of population health research. Research relevant to this area applies case-control and comparative designs to examine associations between exposures and health outcomes, including studies that compare affected and unaffected groups to assess factors linked to disease. Such work illustrates how comparing cases with controls helps reveal associations that inform prevention and clinical understanding. This page gathers peer-reviewed, open-access research relevant to case-control studies and epidemiological research methods.

Research published in this journal

7 peer-reviewed articles, ranked by relevance. Each links to its DOI.

How this research is being cited

The 7 articles above have been cited 58 times in the scholarly literature. Citation data via OpenAlex and Crossref, updated Jun 2026.

• Insights from a trial of narrowband UVB for early multiple sclerosis
  2026 · Photochemical & Photobiological Sciences
• Integrative Computational Analysis of TP53 Exon 5–6 Mutations in Oral Cavity, Prostate, and Breast Cancers in a Senegalese Population
  2026 · Genes
• The role of vitamin D deficiency in the development and severity of oral lichen planus: a case-control study
  2025 · Clinical Oral Investigations
• Clinical predictors of disease severity in oral lichen planus
  2025 · Clinical and Experimental Dermatology
• The role of vitamin D deficiency in the development and severity of oral lichen planus: a case-control study
  2025 · Clinical Oral Investigations
• Beneficial health effects of ultraviolet radiation: expert review and conference report
  2025 · Photochemical & Photobiological Sciences
• Beneficial health effects of ultraviolet radiation: expert review and conference report.
  Uwe Riedmann et al. · 2025 · Photochemical and Photobiological Sciences
• Computational Analysis of TP53 Mutations in Cataracts and Breast, Prostate, and Oral Cavity Cancers in Senegal
  2025 · Open Journal of Genetics

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