EPID600 - Principles of Epidemiology for Public Health (Fall 2009)
Case study readings
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The Age of AIDS (video), Parts 1 and 2.
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| II. |
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Joseph A. McFalls Jr. Population: A Lively
Introduction, 4th ed. Population Bulletin December 2003;58(4).
(http://www.prb.org/pdf/PopulationLivelyIntro.pdf)
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Gregson, Simon; Garnett, Geoffrey P.; Nyamukapa, Constance A.; Hallett, Timothy B.; Lewis, James J. C.; Mason, Peter R.; Chandiwana, Stephen K.; Anderson, Roy M.
HIV Decline Associated with Behavior Change in Eastern Zimbabwe
Science 2006(Feb 3);311(5761):664-666.
(abstract,
Supporting Online Material (SOM), UNC-CH: full text)
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Gabriel M. Leung, Tai-Hing Lam, Thuan Q. Thach, Anthony J. Hedley.
“Will Screening Mammography in the East Do More Harm than Good?”
American Journal of Public Health 2002(Nov);92(11):1841-1846
(abstract, full text)
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John M. Colford, Jr., Timothy J. Wade, Sukhminder K. Sandhu, Catherine C. Wright, et al.
A randomized, controlled trial of in-home drinking water intervention to reduce gastrointestinal illness.
American Journal of Epidemiology 2005;161(5):472-482.
(abstract, full text)
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(none)
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Janice E. Williams, F. Javier Nieto, Catherine P. Stanford and Herman A. Tyroler. Effects of an angry temperament
on coronary heart disease risk: The Atherosclerosis Risk in Communities Study,
Am J Epidemiol 2001; 154(3):230-235.
(abstract, full text)
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Fontham ETH, Correa P, Wu-Williams A, et al. (1991).
Lung cancer in nonsmoking women: A multicenter case control study.
Cancer Epid Biomarkers & Prev. 1:35-43. (Notes: HCFA = Health Care Financing Administration,
now the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services;
abstract,
full text)
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| IX. |
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Peterman TA. (1995). Can we get people to participate in a study of sexual behavior? Sexually Transmitted Diseases 22, 164-168.
(UNC-CH: full text))
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J. Frantzen, T.G.W. Speel, L.A. Kiemeney and E.J.H. Meuleman.
Cardiovascular Risk Among Men Seeking Help for Erectile Dysfunction.
Annals of Epidemiology 2006 (February); 16(2):85-90.
(abstract, UNC-CH: full text)
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(none)
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| XI. |
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the article selected by your TA.
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| XII. |
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(Slide presentation in confounding module in Blackboard and film [classroom course])
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| XIII. |
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Stephen Moses, Francis A. Plummer, Janet E. Bradley, Jeckoniah O. Ndinya-Achola, Nico J.D. Nagelkerke, Allan R. Ronald. The association between lack of male circumcision and risk for HIV infection: a review of the epidemiological data. Sexually Transmitted Diseases, July-August 1994;21(4):201-210.
(UNC-CH: full text))
and
Jayne Byakika-Tusiime. Circumcision and HIV infection: assessment of causality. AIDS and Behavior 2008;12:835-841.
(abstract, UNC-CH: HTML full text), UNC-CH: PDF full text)
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Arthur L. Rheingold. Outbreak investigations - A Perspective. Emerging Infectious Diseases 1998(Jan-Mar);4(1):21-27
(full text)
and
Epidemic Curves Ahead.
FOCUS on Field Epidemiology, vol. 1, issue 5
(pdf, Flash, y en español)
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(none)
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