Table of Contents:
- Basic epidemiologic concepts and principles
- Epidemiologic data measurements
- Epidemiologic surveillance and epidemic outbreak investigation
- The study of risk factors and causation
- Common research designs and issues in epidemiology
- Assessment of risk and benefit in epidemiologic studies
- Understanding the quality of medical data
- Describing variation and distribution of data
- Testing hypotheses
- Analyzing relationships between two variables
- Analyzing relationships between multiple variables
- Using statistics to design studies: sample size calculation, randomization, and controlling for multiple hypotheses
- Using statistics to answer clinical questions: meta-analysis, Bayes Theorem and predictive values of tests, and decision analysis
- Introduction to preventive medicine
- Methods of primary prevention: health promotion and disease prevention
- Principles and practice of secondary prevention
- Methods of tertiary prevention
- Developing recommendations for clinical preventive services
- Chronic disease prevention
- Prevention of infectious diseases
- Prevention of mental health and behavior problems
- Occupational medicine and environmental health
- Injury prevention
- Introduction to public health
- The US Public Health System: structure and function
- Improving public health in communities
- Disaster epidemiology and surveillance
- Health services organization, financing, and quality improvement
- Health care organization, policy, and financing
- Integrating efforts for clinical care, research, and public health action: one science, one planet, one health