Epidemiologic Methods

Noel S. Weiss, MD, DrPH, has been a faculty member at the University of Washington and at the Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center since 1973. His research has been in the areas of cancer epidemiology and clinical epidemiology. He has authored or co-authored more than 600 publications, including three books. At the University of Washington he has received awards for teaching and mentoring, and in 2011 was selected by the Congress of Epidemiology as the first winner of the Alfred Evans Award for teaching and mentoring. Thomas D. Koepsell, MD, MPH, is Professor Emeritus and past Chair of the Department of Epidemiology at the University of Washington. He has conducted research on a wide variety noninfectious diseases, and has over 375 publications. He is also Professor Emeritus in the Department of Health Services and has applied epidemiologic methods in the evaluation of health promotion and disease prevention programs. Dr Koepsell has received three prizes for outstanding teaching and served as President for the Society of Epidemiologic Research.

Preface ; 1 Introduction: An Epidemic of Blindness in Young Children ; 2 Diseases and Populations ; 3 Disease Frequency: Basic ; 4 Disease Frequency: Advanced ; 5 Overview of Study Designs ; 6 Sources of Data on Disease Occurrence ; 7 Person, Place, and Time ; 8 Inferring a Causal Relation Between Exposure and Disease ; 9 Measures of Excess Risk ; 10 Measurement Error ; 11 Confounding and its Control: Basic ; 12 Confounding and Its Control: Advanced ; 13 Randomized Trials ; 14 Cohort Studies ; 15 Case-Control Studies ; 16 Ecologic and Multi-Level Studies ; 17 Induction Periods and Latent Periods ; 18 Improving the Sensitivity of Epidemiologic Studies ; 19 Screening ; 20 Outbreak Investigation ; 21 Evaluating the Effects of Policies on Health ; Index