EPID600 - Principles of Epidemiology for Public Health (Fall 2009)

Textbook readings

I.   Ashengrau and Seage, ch. 1 - The Approach and Evolution of Epidemiology (the 1st edition chapter is available online).

II.   Aschengrau and Seage, ch. 4 - Sources of Public Health Data; ch. 5 - Descriptive Epidemiology

III.   Aschengrau and Seage, ch. 2 - Measures of Disease Frequency, and ch. 3 - Comparing Disease Frequencies

IV.   Aschengrau and Seage, ch. 16 - Screening in Public Health Practice

V.   Aschengrau and Seage, ch. 6 - Overview of Epidemiologic Study Designs, and ch. 7 - Experimental Studies

VI.   Aschengrau and Seage, ch. 12 - Random Error

VII.   Aschengrau and Seage, ch. 8 - Cohort Studies

VIII.   Aschengrau and Seage, ch. 9 - Case-control studies

IX.   Aschengrau and Seage, ch. 10 - Bias

X.   Aschengrau and Seage, ch. 10 - Bias

XI.   Aschengrau and Seage, ch. 14 - Guide to the Critical Review of Epidemiologic Studies

XII.   Aschengrau and Seage, ch. 11 - Confounding, and ch. 13 - Effect Measure Modification

XIII.   Aschengrau and Seage, ch. 15 - The Epidemiologic Approach to Causation

XIV.   No textbook reading for this module

XV.   Aschengrau and Seage, ch. 17 - Ethics in Research Inolving Human Participants.