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Epidemiology
Epidemiology
Curriculum
27 Sections
120 Lessons
10 Weeks
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Introduction
5
1.1
About This Book
1.2
Foolish Assumptions
1.3
Icons Used in This Book
1.4
Beyond This Book
1.5
Where to Go from Here
Part 1: Getting Started with Epidemiology
0
Chapter 1: Entering the World of Epidemiology
5
3.1
Introducing Epidemiology
3.2
Recognizing How Numbers Can Help Study Disease
3.3
Focusing on Prevention Rather Than a Cure
3.4
Delving into Study Finding
3.5
Figuring Out What You Know about Epidemiology: Some Q&As
Chapter 2: Epidemiology 101 — Understanding the Basics
7
4.1
Defining Epidemiology — What to Expect from Your Coursework and Beyond
4.2
Realizing Why Epidemiology Is Important
4.3
Understanding How Epidemiology Tools Are Applied
4.4
Contrasting the Roles of a Physician and Epidemiologist
4.5
Seeking Medications
4.6
Considering How a Disease Is Transmitted
4.7
Searching for Sources of Epidemiologic Data
Chapter 3: Exploring the Development of Epidemiological Thinking
10
5.1
Meeting Hippocrates — the First Epidemiologist
5.2
Tackling the Miasma Theory
5.3
Examining Contributions to Medicine and Public Health – Thomas Sydenham
5.4
Using Concepts of Environmental Epidemiology — Noah Webster
5.5
The Germ Theory — Washing Hands Is Essential
5.6
Working on Workers’ Diseases — Bernardino Ramazzini
5.7
The Birth of Vital Statistics: No Labor Pains Involved
5.8
Examining the Start of Epidemiology and Public Health in the United States
5.9
Reforming Public Health in England
5.10
Looking At Modern Epidemiology
Chapter 4: Eyeing the Milestones in Public Health
7
6.1
Finding the Treatment of Scurvy — James Lind
6.2
Discovering Sources of Cholera in London’s Golden Square — John Snow
6.3
Uncovering Causes of Pellagra — Joseph Goldberger
6.4
Describing the 1918 Influenza Pandemic
6.5
Eradicating Smallpox
6.6
Finding Smoking as a Cause of Lung Cancer
6.7
Feeling the Beat of the Framingham Heart Study
Chapter 5: Recognizing Diseases and Controlling Them
11
7.1
Identifying the Modes of Transmission
7.2
Eyeing the Chain of Infection: Can You Break It?
7.3
Examining the Natural History of Disease
7.4
Listing Common Notifiable Diseases
7.5
Controlling Waterborne Diseases
7.6
Tackling Problems of Airborne Infections
7.7
Curving Vector-Borne Diseases
7.8
Limiting Parasitic Infections
7.9
Controlling Sexually Transmitted Infections
7.10
Dealing With Emerging Infectious Diseases
7.11
Identifying Diseases Caused by Heavy Metals
Part 2: Understanding Disease Causation
0
Chapter 6: Tackling the Epidemiologic Triangle
3
9.1
Scrutinizing an Acute Disease Model
9.2
Inspecting a Chronic Disease Model
9.3
Understanding How Climate Change Can Affect Health
Chapter 7: Inspecting Descriptive Epidemiology: Person, Place, and Time
3
10.1
Knowing Person Factors
10.2
Focusing on Place Factors
10.3
Checking Time Factors
Chapter 8: Viewing Disease Patterns
4
11.1
Defining the Epidemiologic Transition
11.2
Grasping Why Epidemiologic Transition Happens
11.3
Studying Some Chronic Health Conditions
11.4
Understanding How Epidemiologic Transition Affects Healthcare
Chapter 9: Linking Demography and Disease
4
12.1
Defining Demography — Why It’s Important
12.2
Using Demographic Data to Identify Population at Risk
12.3
Tackling Population Pyramids: Not the Ones in Egypt
12.4
Projecting Population – Simple Math
Chapter 10: Digging into Math: Calculating Rates and Risks
5
13.1
Addressing Some Basics When Calculating Descriptive Epidemiology
13.2
Calculating Crude Morbidity and Crude Mortality Rates
13.3
Figuring Out Commonly Used Rates
13.4
Measuring Incidence and Prevalence
13.5
Standardizing Rates
Part 3: Prevention Is Better Than a Cure
0
Chapter 11: Focusing on the Levels of Prevention
3
15.1
Identifying Primary Prevention
15.2
Recognizing Secondary Prevention
15.3
Examining Tertiary Prevention
Chapter 12: Preventing Disease with Vaccine
5
16.1
Getting the Lowdown on Immunity
16.2
Planning Shots for Children, from Birth through Adolescence
16.3
Looking Closer at Cancer-Preventing Vaccines
16.4
Identifying Common Vaccine-Preventable Diseases
16.5
Preventing Disease for World Travelers
Chapter 13: Recognizing Methods of Disease Surveillance
3
17.1
Differentiating between Survey, Surveillance, and Monitoring
17.2
Defining the Types of Surveillance
17.3
Conducting Surveillance: The How-to
Chapter 14: Investigating an Outbreak
4
18.1
Conducting an Epidemic Investigation
18.2
Digging Out Cases by Surveillance, Step-by-Step
18.3
Using Makeshift Hospitals
18.4
Walking through an Outbreak Investigation
Chapter 15: Identifying Disease by Screening
4
19.1
Defining Screening
19.2
Naming Ingredients of a Good Screening Test
19.3
Looking Closer at Some Common Screening Programs
19.4
Evaluating Screening Tests
Part 4: Examining a Study Finding
0
Chapter 16: Figuring Out Whether an Association Is Causal
3
21.1
Establishing Causality
21.2
Understanding Hill’s Criteria for Causality
21.3
Making Rothman’s Causal Pie
Chapter 17: Investigating the Types of Epidemiologic Studies
6
22.1
Looking At the Anatomy of Epidemiologic Studies
22.2
Conducting a Cross-Sectional Study
22.3
Plotting a Case-Control Study
22.4
Leading a Cohort Study
22.5
Figuring Out an Ecological Study
22.6
Developing a Questionnaire
Chapter 18: Encountering Bias and Confounding
5
23.1
Defining Bias
23.2
Clarifying What Confounding Means
23.3
Reviewing Bias-Affecting Research Findings
23.4
Steering Clear of Bias in the Initial Stages of Research
23.5
Controlling for Confounders
Chapter 19: Focusing On Ethics in Health Research
3
24.1
Comprehending the Evolution of Ethical Norms in Research
24.2
Grasping the Importance of a Code of Ethics
24.3
Using Informed Consent
Part 5: The Part of Tens
0
Chapter 20: Ten Careers with a Degree in Epidemiology
10
26.1
Epidemiologist
26.2
Environmental Epidemiologist
26.3
Surveillance Data Analyst and Epidemiologist
26.4
Infection Control Officer
26.5
Research Scientist
26.6
Research Associate
26.7
Data Analyst
26.8
Program Manager
26.9
Chief Medical/Quality Officer
26.10
Data and Research Coordinator
Chapter 21: Ten Tips for Acing Your Epidemiology Classes
10
27.1
Ask and Answer Questions in Class
27.2
Practice, Practice, and Practice
27.3
Take Good Class Notes
27.4
Get Information Online
27.5
Apply the Knowledge
27.6
Make a Cheat Sheet
27.7
Use a Scientific Calculator
27.8
Memorize Some Definitions and Steps
27.9
Get Involved in Research
27.10
Participate in Group Work
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