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Overview
Curriculum
Epidemiology
Curriculum
27 Sections
120 Lessons
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Introduction
5
5.6
About This Book
5.7
Foolish Assumptions
5.8
Icons Used in This Book
5.9
Beyond This Book
5.10
Where to Go from Here
Part 1: Getting Started with Epidemiology
0
Chapter 1: Entering the World of Epidemiology
5
12.13
Introducing Epidemiology
12.14
Recognizing How Numbers Can Help Study Disease
12.15
Focusing on Prevention Rather Than a Cure
12.16
Delving into Study Finding
12.17
Figuring Out What You Know about Epidemiology: Some Q&As
Chapter 2: Epidemiology 101 — Understanding the Basics
7
18.19
Defining Epidemiology — What to Expect from Your Coursework and Beyond
18.20
Realizing Why Epidemiology Is Important
18.21
Understanding How Epidemiology Tools Are Applied
18.22
Contrasting the Roles of a Physician and Epidemiologist
18.23
Seeking Medications
18.24
Considering How a Disease Is Transmitted
18.25
Searching for Sources of Epidemiologic Data
Chapter 3: Exploring the Development of Epidemiological Thinking
10
26.27
Meeting Hippocrates — the First Epidemiologist
26.28
Tackling the Miasma Theory
26.29
Examining Contributions to Medicine and Public Health – Thomas Sydenham
26.30
Using Concepts of Environmental Epidemiology — Noah Webster
26.31
The Germ Theory — Washing Hands Is Essential
26.32
Working on Workers’ Diseases — Bernardino Ramazzini
26.33
The Birth of Vital Statistics: No Labor Pains Involved
26.34
Examining the Start of Epidemiology and Public Health in the United States
26.35
Reforming Public Health in England
26.36
Looking At Modern Epidemiology
Chapter 4: Eyeing the Milestones in Public Health
7
37.38
Finding the Treatment of Scurvy — James Lind
37.39
Discovering Sources of Cholera in London’s Golden Square — John Snow
37.40
Uncovering Causes of Pellagra — Joseph Goldberger
37.41
Describing the 1918 Influenza Pandemic
37.42
Eradicating Smallpox
37.43
Finding Smoking as a Cause of Lung Cancer
37.44
Feeling the Beat of the Framingham Heart Study
Chapter 5: Recognizing Diseases and Controlling Them
11
45.46
Identifying the Modes of Transmission
45.47
Eyeing the Chain of Infection: Can You Break It?
45.48
Examining the Natural History of Disease
45.49
Listing Common Notifiable Diseases
45.50
Controlling Waterborne Diseases
45.51
Tackling Problems of Airborne Infections
45.52
Curving Vector-Borne Diseases
45.53
Limiting Parasitic Infections
45.54
Controlling Sexually Transmitted Infections
45.55
Dealing With Emerging Infectious Diseases
45.56
Identifying Diseases Caused by Heavy Metals
Part 2: Understanding Disease Causation
0
Chapter 6: Tackling the Epidemiologic Triangle
3
58.59
Scrutinizing an Acute Disease Model
58.60
Inspecting a Chronic Disease Model
58.61
Understanding How Climate Change Can Affect Health
Chapter 7: Inspecting Descriptive Epidemiology: Person, Place, and Time
3
62.63
Knowing Person Factors
62.64
Focusing on Place Factors
62.65
Checking Time Factors
Chapter 8: Viewing Disease Patterns
4
66.67
Defining the Epidemiologic Transition
66.68
Grasping Why Epidemiologic Transition Happens
66.69
Studying Some Chronic Health Conditions
66.70
Understanding How Epidemiologic Transition Affects Healthcare
Chapter 9: Linking Demography and Disease
4
71.72
Defining Demography — Why It’s Important
71.73
Using Demographic Data to Identify Population at Risk
71.74
Tackling Population Pyramids: Not the Ones in Egypt
71.75
Projecting Population – Simple Math
Chapter 10: Digging into Math: Calculating Rates and Risks
5
76.77
Addressing Some Basics When Calculating Descriptive Epidemiology
76.78
Calculating Crude Morbidity and Crude Mortality Rates
76.79
Figuring Out Commonly Used Rates
76.80
Measuring Incidence and Prevalence
76.81
Standardizing Rates
Part 3: Prevention Is Better Than a Cure
0
Chapter 11: Focusing on the Levels of Prevention
3
83.84
Identifying Primary Prevention
83.85
Recognizing Secondary Prevention
83.86
Examining Tertiary Prevention
Chapter 12: Preventing Disease with Vaccine
5
87.88
Getting the Lowdown on Immunity
87.89
Planning Shots for Children, from Birth through Adolescence
87.90
Looking Closer at Cancer-Preventing Vaccines
87.91
Identifying Common Vaccine-Preventable Diseases
87.92
Preventing Disease for World Travelers
Chapter 13: Recognizing Methods of Disease Surveillance
3
93.94
Differentiating between Survey, Surveillance, and Monitoring
93.95
Defining the Types of Surveillance
93.96
Conducting Surveillance: The How-to
Chapter 14: Investigating an Outbreak
4
97.98
Conducting an Epidemic Investigation
97.99
Digging Out Cases by Surveillance, Step-by-Step
97.100
Using Makeshift Hospitals
97.101
Walking through an Outbreak Investigation
Chapter 15: Identifying Disease by Screening
4
102.103
Defining Screening
102.104
Naming Ingredients of a Good Screening Test
102.105
Looking Closer at Some Common Screening Programs
102.106
Evaluating Screening Tests
Part 4: Examining a Study Finding
0
Chapter 16: Figuring Out Whether an Association Is Causal
3
108.109
Establishing Causality
108.110
Understanding Hill’s Criteria for Causality
108.111
Making Rothman’s Causal Pie
Chapter 17: Investigating the Types of Epidemiologic Studies
6
112.113
Looking At the Anatomy of Epidemiologic Studies
112.114
Conducting a Cross-Sectional Study
112.115
Plotting a Case-Control Study
112.116
Leading a Cohort Study
112.117
Figuring Out an Ecological Study
112.118
Developing a Questionnaire
Chapter 18: Encountering Bias and Confounding
5
119.120
Defining Bias
119.121
Clarifying What Confounding Means
119.122
Reviewing Bias-Affecting Research Findings
119.123
Steering Clear of Bias in the Initial Stages of Research
119.124
Controlling for Confounders
Chapter 19: Focusing On Ethics in Health Research
3
125.126
Comprehending the Evolution of Ethical Norms in Research
125.127
Grasping the Importance of a Code of Ethics
125.128
Using Informed Consent
Part 5: The Part of Tens
0
Chapter 20: Ten Careers with a Degree in Epidemiology
10
130.131
Epidemiologist
130.132
Environmental Epidemiologist
130.133
Surveillance Data Analyst and Epidemiologist
130.134
Infection Control Officer
130.135
Research Scientist
130.136
Research Associate
130.137
Data Analyst
130.138
Program Manager
130.139
Chief Medical/Quality Officer
130.140
Data and Research Coordinator
Chapter 21: Ten Tips for Acing Your Epidemiology Classes
10
141.142
Ask and Answer Questions in Class
141.143
Practice, Practice, and Practice
141.144
Take Good Class Notes
141.145
Get Information Online
141.146
Apply the Knowledge
141.147
Make a Cheat Sheet
141.148
Use a Scientific Calculator
141.149
Memorize Some Definitions and Steps
141.150
Get Involved in Research
141.151
Participate in Group Work
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